On poisons in relation to medical jurisprudence and medicine . Seeds of nux vomica, natural size, a, convex surface; 6, concave surface;c, hilum or umbilicus. be mixed with other innocent powders, which will entirely destroy ormask this chemical reaction. On one occasion I found the nux vomicato be strongly impregnated with the powder of guaiacum, so that nitricacid produced with it a deep green color. This fact served to identifythe sample, and it was proved that it had derived this impregnationfrom its having been ground in a mill in which guaiacum had beenpreviously ground. In other cases t
On poisons in relation to medical jurisprudence and medicine . Seeds of nux vomica, natural size, a, convex surface; 6, concave surface;c, hilum or umbilicus. be mixed with other innocent powders, which will entirely destroy ormask this chemical reaction. On one occasion I found the nux vomicato be strongly impregnated with the powder of guaiacum, so that nitricacid produced with it a deep green color. This fact served to identifythe sample, and it was proved that it had derived this impregnationfrom its having been ground in a mill in which guaiacum had beenpreviously ground. In other cases the powder may be mixed withfarinaceous substances. Nux vomica, if used as a poison at all, is em-ployed in the form of powder. Its chief use is for the destruction ofvermin. It has, however, occasioned numerous deaths, chiefly as a re-sult of suicide. Owing to its bitter taste, its presence in an article offood would be detected in any attempt at murder. In the case of Wren(p. 665) the poison was mixed with milk by the prisoner, an ignorantlad; but it comple
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