The complete works . in manydistricts for this purpose. ISTor is it likely that the practicewill be checked until juries can be induced to take a rathersevere view of the suddenly fatal misadventures which thissort of chronic poisoning not unfrequently produces. It ap-pears, however, to be very difficult to persuade them to lookupon it as other than a venial offense. An inquest was re-cently held at Chapel Gate upon the body of an infant whohad died from the administration, by its mother, of abouttwelve times the proper dose of laudanum. The bottle waslabeled carefully with a caution that opiu
The complete works . in manydistricts for this purpose. ISTor is it likely that the practicewill be checked until juries can be induced to take a rathersevere view of the suddenly fatal misadventures which thissort of chronic poisoning not unfrequently produces. It ap-pears, however, to be very difficult to persuade them to lookupon it as other than a venial offense. An inquest was re-cently held at Chapel Gate upon the body of an infant whohad died from the administration, by its mother, of abouttwelve times the proper dose of laudanum. The bottle waslabeled carefully with a caution that opium should not begiven to children under seven years of age. In this casefive drops of laudanum were given to a baby of eighteenmonths. The medical evidence was of a quite unmistakablecharacter, and the coroner in summing up read to the jury adefinition of manslaughter, and told them that a lawful act,if dangerous, not attended with such care as would renderthe probability of danger very small, and resulting in death,. WE HAVE SEEN HIS STAR IX THE EAST. Painted by Bernard of Luino, at MILAN. FOES CLAVIGEEA. 173 would amount to manslaughter at the least. Then in thiscase they must return a verdict of manslaughter unless theycould find any circumstances which would take it out of therule of law he had laid down to them. It was not in evidencethat the mother had used anv caution at all in administeringthe poison. ISTevertheless, the jury returned, after a shortinterval, the verdict of homicide by misadventure. Hush-a-bye, baby, upon the tree top, my mother used tosing to me: and I remember the da^vn of intelligence in whichI began to object to the bad rhyme which followed:— whenthe wind blows, the cradle will rock. But the Christmaswinds must blow rudely, and warp the waters askance indeed,which rock our English cradles now. Mendelssohns songs without words have been, I believe,lately popular in musical circles. We shall, perhaps, requirecradle songs with very few words, and Chris
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