Poison romance and poison mysteries / by C.J.S. Thompson.

  • Charles Thompson
Date:
1899
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Credit: Poison romance and poison mysteries / by C.J.S. Thompson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to its effect in small doses for a length of time, a process which is actually possible with some drugs, but not with all. His satirical description of the bungling of the common poisoner, as compared to the fine subtlety and cunning he advocates, is also worth quoting : “ Amongst us a simpleton, possessed by the demon of hate or cupidity, who has an enemy to destroy, or some near relation to dispose of, goes straight to the grocer’s or druggist’s, gives a false name, which leads more easily to his detection than his real one, and purchases, under a pretext that the rats prevent him from sleeping, five or six pennyworth of arsenic. If he is really a cunning fellow he goes to five or six different druggists or grocers, and thereby becomes only five or six times more easily traced ; then, when he has acquired his specific, he administers duly to his enemy or near kinsman a dose of arsenic, which would make a mammoth or mastodon burst, and which, without
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