On poisons in relation to medical jurisprudence and medicine . a. Seeds of hemlock, naturalsize. 6. The same, magnified 20diameters. c. Group of Leaves of common hemlock. from the seeds of parsley and of other umbelliferous plants. A personmay be poisoned by a decoction of leaves of hemlock, and no leaves befound in the stomach or bowels (case of Bowyer, supra). In this casethe stomach had been emptied and the contents lost before it was sentto me! No trace of conia was found. The prisoner first gathered the HEMLOCK ANALYSIS. 701 Anthriscus sylvestris by mistake for Conium maculatam, b
On poisons in relation to medical jurisprudence and medicine . a. Seeds of hemlock, naturalsize. 6. The same, magnified 20diameters. c. Group of Leaves of common hemlock. from the seeds of parsley and of other umbelliferous plants. A personmay be poisoned by a decoction of leaves of hemlock, and no leaves befound in the stomach or bowels (case of Bowyer, supra). In this casethe stomach had been emptied and the contents lost before it was sentto me! No trace of conia was found. The prisoner first gathered the HEMLOCK ANALYSIS. 701 Anthriscus sylvestris by mistake for Conium maculatam, but it wasproved that she had afterwards gathered the leaves of hemlock. Aleaf of each of these plants was copied by photography, and produced as evidence in court. As the determination of the presence of fragments of leaves in poi-soned liquids, or in the contents of a stomach, may be of importance asevidence, we subjoin an illustration of hemlock leaves, engraved froma photograph of the living plant (Fig. 78). The appearance and smellof the leaves, either when bruised or when rubbed with a solution ofpotash, will greatly aid a medical witness in
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