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Page 482 - ... pain in the stomach and sickness, but not very severe. Once begun it can only be left off by very gradually diminishing the daily dose, as a sudden cessation causes sickness, burning pains in the stomach, and other symptoms of poisoning, very speedily followed by death.
Page 483 - No. 2, present dose, twenty-three grains of pure white arsenic in coarse powder. Dr. Arbele says this gentleman's daily dose has been weighed there also, and found as above. Mr. continues : — ' About an hour after taking my first dose (I took the same quantity daily for three months,) there followed slight perspiration with griping pains in the bowels, and after three or four hours a loose evacuation :, this was followed by a keen appetite and a feeling of excitement With the exception of the pain,...
Page 482 - The arsenic is taken pure in some warm liquid, as coffee, fasting, beginning •with a bit the size of a pin's head, and increasing to that of a pea. The complexion and general appearance are much improved, and the parties using it seldom look so old as they really are, but he has never heard of any case in •which it was used to improve personal beauty, though he cannot say that it never is so used.
Page 484 - Kursinger says he always seemed very healthy, and every evening regularly, after remaining a little too long over his glass, he took a dose of arsenic, which enabled him to get up the next morning perfectly sober and quite bright.
Page 482 - If you wish to continue the study of assaying, and become hereafter superintendent of a factory, more especially of an arsenic factory, in which position there are so few, and which is abandoned by so many, and to preserve yourself from the fumes which injure the lungs of most, if not...
Page 486 - After giving details of six post-mortem examinations, he says : — ' The reason of the frequency of these sad cases appears to me to be the familiarity with arsenic which exists in our country, particularly the higher parts. There is hardly a district in Upper Styria where you will not find arsenic in at least one house under the name of hydrach. They use it for the complaints of domestic animals, to kill vermin, and as a stomachic to excite an appetite. I saw one peasant show another, on the point...
Page 484 - Mr. Curator Kiirsinger (I presume curator of some museum at Salzburg,) notwithstanding hie long professional work in Lungau and Binzgau, knew only two arsenic eaters, one the gentleman whose case has just been related, the other the ranger of the hunting district in Grossarl, named Trauner. This man •was at the advanced age of 81 still a keen chamois hunter and an active climber of mountains : he met his death by a fall from a mountain height while engaged in his occupation. Mr.
Page 483 - Evil consequences only ensue from a long continued interruption. From circumstances I am often obliged to leave it off for two or three days, and I feel only slight languor and loss of appetite, and I resume taking the arsenic in somewhat smaller doses. On two occasions, at the earnest solicitations of my friends, I attempted entirely to leave off the arsenic. The second time was in January, 1855. I was...
Page 292 - I introduce a Beer's cataract knife at the outer and lower margin of the cornea where it joins the sclerotica. The point of the knife is pushed obliquely backwards and downwards until the fibres of the sclerotica are divided obliquely for rather more than one-eighth of an inch. By this incision the ciliary muscle is divided, whilst the accumulated fluid flows by the side of the knife.* This procedure * We confess that we should be utterly unable to perform the operation Mr.
Page 481 - Lorenz, to whom questions were first addressed, at once stated that he was aware of the practice, but added, that it is generally difficult to get hold of individual cases, as the obtaining of arsenic without a doctor's certificate is contrary to law, and...