WAS COOK KILLED BY STRYCHNIA?

The Discursive Function of Place in "The Night when Sohrab was killed" by Bijan Najdi

One of the important functions of every Semiotic system is its local function. In a discourse, places have various roles such as objective, acting, being, abstract, narrative and mythical. In addition they have referential, narrative, tensional, metaphorical and transcendental functions and they play a role in creation of meaning. By strengthening objective and physical aspects of place, its co...

Case of Strychnia Poisoning

About 1 p.m., on the afternoon of the 8th of September, I "was summoned to see one of the hospital servants, a Goorgah of H. M.'s 8th Bombay N. I., "who, it was alleged, had poisoned himself. On arriving at the hospital I found the would-be suicide lying on a cot in the medical ward, in a high state of excitement, and evidently suffering from very acute pain; his countenance wore an anxious exp...

Killed by Internet Addiction? A Real Possibility.

A Case of Snake-Bite: Strychnia Treatment, Recovery

girl. There were two minute punctures near each other on the dorsum of the index finger of the left hand close to the nail. No extravasation of blood was visible around punctures. The hand was congested owing to ligature at varying distances having been put round the arm of forearm. Unconsciousness is said to have set in about half hour after the bite. I keep ready lor use liquor strychnia (B. ...

Walter Wheeler Cook