Outlines of medical jurisprudence for India / by J.D.B. Gribble and Patrick Hehir.

  • Gribble, J. D. B. (James Dunning Baker), -1906.
Date:
1892
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Credit: Outlines of medical jurisprudence for India / by J.D.B. Gribble and Patrick Hehir. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    dust was employed, and Chevees mentions two Indian cases of attempted suicide by swallowing an unbroken diamond. Like pounded glass, any injurious action possessed by dia- monds or diamond dust is solely mechanical. (c) Chopped hair—May act as a mechanical irritant. Chopped hair as Chevees mentions that a belief exists in some parts of India poison, that tiger's smellers'' are poisonous, and states on the authority of Baboo Kanny Lall Dey Rai Bahadur that chopped hair is sometimes used by cattle poisoners.* * Lyon's Medical Jurisprudence for India, 2nd ed.f pp, 229-230.