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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org/license - - -Title: Poison Romance and Poison Mysteries - -Author: C. J. S. Thompson - -Release Date: September 28, 2013 [EBook #43840] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK POISON ROMANCE AND POISON MYSTERIES *** - - - - -Produced by Chris Curnow, Eleni Christofaki and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by The Internet Archive) - - - - - - -</pre> - +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 43840 ***</div> <div class="transnote"> @@ -268,7 +230,7 @@ great deal of information from ancient and modern alike."</p> subject of toxicology will find some interesting chapters in Mr. <span class="smcap">C. J. S. Thompson's</span> book."</p> -<p class="hang"><cite>The Athenæum</cite>:—"Decidedly sensible and well informed."</p> +<p class="hang"><cite>The Athenæum</cite>:—"Decidedly sensible and well informed."</p> <p class="hang"><cite>Literature</cite>:—"Mr. <span class="smcap">Thompson</span> writes a sprightly chapter on toxicology in fiction."</p> @@ -553,7 +515,7 @@ purposes.</p> savage nation and people has its own peculiar poison. In Africa the seeds of <em>Strophanthus -hispidus</em>, or kombé, a most +hispidus</em>, or kombé, a most virulent poison, are used for this purpose; while explorers tell us that the ancient pigmy @@ -600,12 +562,12 @@ North was supposed to be ruled and dominated by sorcerers and kindred beings, all of whom were said to be children of the -Sun. Here dwelt Æëtes, Perses, +Sun. Here dwelt Æëtes, Perses, Hecate, Medea, and Circe. Hecate was the daughter of -Perses and married to Æëtes, +Perses and married to Æëtes, and their daughters were Medea -and Circe. Æëtes and Perses +and Circe. Æëtes and Perses were said to be brothers, and their country was afterwards supposed to be Colchis. To @@ -642,7 +604,7 @@ magician. It is related that, after her adventures with Jason, she returned with him to Thessaly. On their arrival they -found Æson, the father of Jason, +found Æson, the father of Jason, and Pelias, his uncle, who had usurped the throne, both old and decrepit. Medea was requested<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">13</a></span> @@ -656,7 +618,7 @@ potent plants into his veins.</p> <p>Some years after, Medea deserted Jason and fled to Athens, and shortly afterwards married -Ægeus, king of that city. Ægeus +Ægeus, king of that city. Ægeus had a son by a former wife, named Theseus, who had been brought up in exile. At length @@ -665,7 +627,7 @@ his parentage, but Medea hearing of this, and for some reason greatly resenting it, put a poisoned goblet into the hands of -Ægeus at an entertainment he +Ægeus at an entertainment he gave to Theseus, with the intent that he should hand it to his son. At the critical moment, however, @@ -820,7 +782,7 @@ the system.</p> <p>Bull's blood is classed as a poison by various ancient writers, and it is recorded that -Æson, Midas King of Phrygia, +Æson, Midas King of Phrygia, Plutarch, and Themistocles, killed themselves by drinking bull's blood. It is probable that @@ -862,7 +824,7 @@ the poppy, black and white hellebore, henbane, mandragora, hemlock, elaterin, and the juices of species of euphorbia, and -apocyneæ. Medea is said to +apocyneæ. Medea is said to have been the first to introduce colchicum. The black and white hellebore were known to @@ -1120,7 +1082,7 @@ Austria as late as the year 1712.</p> <p>Cantharides, or Spanish fly, was very commonly used as a -poison in mediæval times, the +poison in mediæval times, the usual method of administering being to chop it up and mix it with pepper. It is said to @@ -1312,7 +1274,7 @@ mandrake, in particular, excited the greatest veneration on this account. It is supposed this plant is the same which the ancient -Hebrews called Dudaïm. That +Hebrews called Dudaïm. That these people held it in the highest esteem in the days of Jacob is evident from the notice of its @@ -1327,7 +1289,7 @@ of making childless wives become mothers. Mandrake was among the more important drugs employed by the ancients for -producing anæsthesia. Doses +producing anæsthesia. Doses of the wine made from the root were administered before amputating a limb or the application @@ -1762,7 +1724,7 @@ Charles, King of Navarre, throws some light on the systematic manner in which the poisoning of obnoxious persons was carried -out in mediæval times. It is in +out in mediæval times. It is in the form of a commission to one Wondreton to poison Charles VI, the Duke of Valois, brother @@ -2323,7 +2285,7 @@ to practise alchemy, and had dealings in the black arts, who for suitable consideration would procure poison for criminal purposes. -In mediæval times a law<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">35</a></span> +In mediæval times a law<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">35</a></span> was passed in Italy rendering the apothecary, who knowingly sold poison for criminal purposes, @@ -2540,7 +2502,7 @@ he had an opportunity of examining all the documents, and that he found the poison consisted of a solution of arsenic in -<em>Aqua cymbalariæ</em>. The dose was +<em>Aqua cymbalariæ</em>. The dose was said to be from four to six drops in water, and that it was colourless, transparent and tasteless. @@ -2625,7 +2587,7 @@ effect.</p> <p>It is a curious fact that most of the notorious poisoners in -mediæval times were women, +mediæval times were women, and, indeed, in later years the frail sex seem to have retained a special predilection for this form @@ -2796,7 +2758,7 @@ that first her father, then her brothers and sister fell victims to her revenge. Suspicion resting on her, she fled into Belgium, -and was arrested at <span class="err" title="original: Liége">Liège</span>. A +and was arrested at <span class="err" title="original: Liége">Liège</span>. A full confession of her crimes, written by her own hand, was found upon her.</p> @@ -2826,7 +2788,7 @@ heard of the death of her lover, she at once made every effort to obtain the box by bribing the officers of justice, but failed. -La Chaussée, the servant of St. +La Chaussée, the servant of St. Croix, laid claim to the property, but was arrested as an accomplice and imprisoned. On confessing @@ -2867,7 +2829,7 @@ appear before it; among others, two nieces of Cardinal Mazarin, the Duchess of Bouillon, and the Countess de Soissons, mother -of Prince Eugène. The Countess +of Prince Eugène. The Countess de Soissons had to retire to Brussels.</p> @@ -3444,7 +3406,7 @@ who was tried in France for the murder of her husband in 1840, is a strangely romantic one.</p> -<p>Marie Fortunée Cappelle was +<p>Marie Fortunée Cappelle was the daughter of a captain in the Imperial Artillery. Her parents died in her childhood, and she @@ -3558,7 +3520,7 @@ man was searched, certain diamonds were found, which were supposed to have been stolen from the Vicomtesse -de Léotaud by Madame Lafarge +de Léotaud by Madame Lafarge before her marriage.</p> <p>The unfortunate woman was @@ -3607,7 +3569,7 @@ was he who also first threw out hints on his master's return that he was being poisoned by arsenic, and told a brother -employé that his master would +employé that his master would be dead within ten days. There was ample proof, however, that there was a considerable quantity @@ -3712,7 +3674,7 @@ was reduced to five years in the Montpellier house of detention, after which the Government sent her to the Convent of St. -Rémy, from whence she was +Rémy, from whence she was liberated in 1852, but only to end her wretched life a few months afterwards.</p> @@ -3773,7 +3735,7 @@ administration of arsenic at Glasgow, in 1857, excited universal interest. Owing to the social position of the lady, the -trial was a <em>cause célèbre</em> of the +trial was a <em>cause célèbre</em> of the time, and the circumstances of the case were of an extraordinary character. Miss Smith, @@ -3861,7 +3823,7 @@ doctor always declined to divulge his wife's maiden name. He kept a small surgery, and is said to have been in receipt of -about £400 a year from an +about £400 a year from an unnamed source. Some years after, believing that his wife had been recognized, he bought a @@ -4606,7 +4568,7 @@ a surgeon, in impecunious circumstances, had a reversionary interest through his wife in a <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_64" id="Page_64">64</a></span> -sum of £1,500, which would +sum of £1,500, which would come to him on the death of his brother-in-law, Percy Malcolm John. The latter, a @@ -5302,11 +5264,11 @@ examination of the various organs of the body of Mrs. Taylor, which was exhumed for this purpose, revealed the presence of -·279, or a little more than a<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_73" id="Page_73">73</a></span> +·279, or a little more than a<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_73" id="Page_73">73</a></span> quarter of a grain of antimony in the contents of the stomach. Antimony was also found in the -blood, and 1·151 grain was recovered +blood, and 1·151 grain was recovered from 1,000 grains of the liver.</p> @@ -5437,7 +5399,7 @@ chloroform to a lady</em>): 'Nurse, some 1 in 1,000, if you please.'</p> -<p>"Patient (<em>under the anæsthetic</em>): +<p>"Patient (<em>under the anæsthetic</em>): 'Ah! that's my Jack. He's one in a thousand. Dear Jack!'"</p> @@ -5818,7 +5780,7 @@ was discovered in 1818 by Pelletier and Carenton, and was first extracted from St. Ignatius' bean, in which it is present to -the extent of about 1·5 per cent. +the extent of about 1·5 per cent. Very soon afterwards it was extracted from nux vomica, which, being very plentiful, is now the @@ -5900,7 +5862,7 @@ property. In 1854 he owed a large sum of money, and in the same year his wife died, whose life, it transpired, he had insured -for £13,000. With this money +for £13,000. With this money he bought two racehorses; but in his betting transactions he lost heavily, and then commenced @@ -5908,12 +5870,12 @@ to borrow money from Cook, whose name he also forged on one occasion on the back of a cheque. He insured his brother's -life for £13,000, and very +life for £13,000, and very shortly after <em>he</em> died, the amount being also paid to Palmer. This money soon went, and at length he had two writs out against -him for £4,000.</p> +him for £4,000.</p> <p>In the meanwhile, Cook had been more successful than his @@ -6072,7 +6034,7 @@ questioned about Cook's affairs, he said that he held a paper drawn up by a lawyer, and signed by Cook, stating that, in respect -of £4,000 worth of bills, he (Cook) +of £4,000 worth of bills, he (Cook) was alone liable, and Palmer had a claim for that amount against the estate. This, with @@ -6092,7 +6054,7 @@ etc. were being sent to London for examination by the Government analyst, he intercepted them, and offered the post-boy -£10 to upset the conveyance and +£10 to upset the conveyance and break them.</p> <p>The evidence offered at the @@ -6160,7 +6122,7 @@ which a farmer named Walter Horsford was convicted of the murder of his cousin Annie Holmes, at St. Neot's, in 1897, -3·69 grains of strychnine were +3·69 grains of strychnine were recovered from the internal organs, after the body was exhumed, <em>nineteen days</em> after death. @@ -6245,7 +6207,7 @@ long before that time. Pyres, the first ambassador from Europe to China in 1516, speaks of the opium of Egypt, Cambay, -and the kingdom of Coûs, in +and the kingdom of Coûs, in Bengal, and states it was eaten by "the kings and lords, and even the common people, though @@ -6786,7 +6748,7 @@ More than five hundred clocks struck the hour with fleeting silvery voice, and every object touched gave a note like the -harmonica or the Æolian harp. +harmonica or the Æolian harp. He swam in an ocean of sound, where floated like aisles of light some of the airs of "Lucia di @@ -7045,7 +7007,7 @@ the wood of the true cross.</p> <p>The first exact description of the plant is that given by Gonzalo -Fernandez de Oviedo-y-Valdés, +Fernandez de Oviedo-y-Valdés, Governor of St. Domingo, in his <em>Historia General de las Indias</em>, printed at Seville @@ -7099,7 +7061,7 @@ cultivate more than one hundred pounds.</p> <p>It is said, some spent as much -as £500 a year in the purchase +as £500 a year in the purchase of tobacco in those days. In 1624 Pope Urban VIII published a decree of excommunication @@ -7385,7 +7347,7 @@ take on an average from 60 to 80 grains of the drug a day. The smallest quantity which has proved fatal in the adult is -4½ grains; in other cases enormous +4½ grains; in other cases enormous quantities have been taken with impunity; and Guy states recovery once took place after @@ -7613,7 +7575,7 @@ of untold power, an infinitesimal quantity of which will cause instantaneous death without leaving a trace behind. -They describe anæsthetics so +They describe anæsthetics so powerful, that a whiff from a bottle is sufficient to produce immediate insensibility for any @@ -7775,10 +7737,10 @@ a series of terrible crimes.</p> <p>The recital of the ingenious -experiments of the Abbé Adelmonte +experiments of the Abbé Adelmonte is a piece of clever construction, as the quotation will -show. "The Abbé," said +show. "The Abbé," said Monte Christo, "had a remarkably fine garden full of vegetables, flowers, and fruit. @@ -7794,14 +7756,14 @@ he cut it. In the eyes of everybody it seemed fit for table, and preserved its wholesome appearance. It was only poisoned -to the Abbé Adelmonte. +to the Abbé Adelmonte. He then took the cabbage to the room where he had rabbits, -for the Abbé Adelmonte had a +for the Abbé Adelmonte had a collection of rabbits, cats, and guinea-pigs, equally fine as his collection of vegetables, flowers, -and fruit. Well, the Abbé +and fruit. Well, the Abbé Adelmonte took a rabbit and made it eat a leaf of the cabbage. The rabbit died. What @@ -7816,7 +7778,7 @@ cats, and guinea-pigs they have killed? Not one. So, then, the rabbit dies, and justice takes no notice. This rabbit dead, -the Abbé Adelmonte has its +the Abbé Adelmonte has its entrails taken out by his cook and thrown on the dunghill; on this dunghill was a hen,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_106" id="Page_106">106</a></span> @@ -8231,7 +8193,7 @@ son, who had recently qualified as a medical practitioner in London, had poisoned two girls—Marsh and Shrivell—and that -he, the writer, required £1,500 to +he, the writer, required £1,500 to suppress it. Dr. Harper placed this letter in the hands of the police, with the result, that on @@ -8249,7 +8211,7 @@ the writer declared that he had evidence to show that the physician had poisoned a Miss Clover with strychnine, which evidence -he could purchase for £2,500, +he could purchase for £2,500, and so save himself from ruin.</p> <p>Neill Cream was remanded, @@ -8353,12 +8315,12 @@ two pounds of animal matter. He also examined the organs from the bodies of Alice Marsh and Emma Shrivell. He found -6·39 grains of strychnine in the +6·39 grains of strychnine in the stomach and its contents of Alice -Marsh, and 1·6 grain of <span class="err" title="original: strychinne">strychnine</span> +Marsh, and 1·6 grain of <span class="err" title="original: strychinne">strychnine</span> in the stomach and its -contents, also 1·46 grain in -the vomit, and ·2 grain in a +contents, also 1·46 grain in +the vomit, and ·2 grain in a small portion of the liver of Emma Shrivell.</p> @@ -8518,12 +8480,12 @@ Mr. Justice Hawkins.</p> evidence, he first made an analysis of a portion of the body of Mrs. Holmes on January 19, and -extracted 1·31 grain of strychnine, +extracted 1·31 grain of strychnine, but no other poison. Subsequently he examined the two packets discovered under the bed, and found one contained -33¾ grains of powdered +33¾ grains of powdered strychnine, and the other, which presented the appearance of having had the powder shaken @@ -8534,7 +8496,7 @@ was exhumed nineteen days after death, and he then made an analysis of all the chief organs, and obtained therefrom a total<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_116" id="Page_116">116</a></span> -quantity of 3·69 grains of strychnine. +quantity of 3·69 grains of strychnine. Death usually occurred about half an hour after the commencement of the symptoms. @@ -8865,7 +8827,7 @@ by man was the poisoned weapon.</p> by primitive man goes back to a period of remote antiquity. Among the cave -remains of the palæolithic period, +remains of the palæolithic period, arrow-and spear-heads of bone have been found marked with depressions for containing poison, @@ -8992,7 +8954,7 @@ ridding themselves of an enemy; and if the plot failed in the first instance, they were always ready to try it again, for, as -Cæsar Borgia is stated to have +Cæsar Borgia is stated to have once exclaimed, "what has failed at dinner-time will succeed at supper-time." Catherine @@ -9002,7 +8964,7 @@ Florentine perfumers were said to be adepts in mixing arsenic with sweetmeats.</p> -<p>The poisoned flowers of mediæval +<p>The poisoned flowers of mediæval romance, and poisoned gloves and boots, which figure so often in legend and story as @@ -9052,7 +9014,7 @@ such a way, that it would impregnate any liquid that was placed in it.</p> -<p>There is record of one François +<p>There is record of one François Belot who made a speciality of this art, and, it is said, received a comfortable income @@ -9379,9 +9341,9 @@ called, at his bidding.</li> </ul> <p>p. <a href="#Page_40">40</a>:</p> <ul> -<li>and was arrested at Liége</li> +<li>and was arrested at Liége</li> -<li>and was arrested at <span class="u">Liège</span></li> +<li>and was arrested at <span class="u">Liège</span></li> </ul> <p>p. <a href="#Page_45">45</a>:</p> <ul> @@ -9467,9 +9429,9 @@ initals "E. S.,"</li> </ul> <p>p. <a href="#Page_113">113</a>:</p> <ul> -<li>and 1·6 grain of strychinne</li> +<li>and 1·6 grain of strychinne</li> -<li>and 1·6 grain of <span class="u">strychnine</span></li> +<li>and 1·6 grain of <span class="u">strychnine</span></li> </ul> <p>p. <a href="#Page_118">118</a>:</p> <ul> @@ -9494,388 +9456,6 @@ slight clue, as <span class="u">it is</span> a substance</li> <li><span class="u">The</span> Hindoos have an ingenious</li></ul> </div> - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Poison Romance and Poison Mysteries, by -C. J. S. 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