A Case of Poisoning by Sheth Kurrubbee, the White Oleander
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of the case, with some remarks on the modus operandi of the poison. SrEenatjth Ciiuckerbutty, a Hindoo, aged 29, was brought into hospital in an apparently unconscious state on Friday, the 3rd August, 1866, at 1 p. m. At the time of admission his trunk and limbs were found somewhat rigid, the jaws spasmodically closed, and tlie pulse very feeble, and exceedingly slow, beating about 30 per minute. The previous history of the case is as follows :?At about 8 o'clock that morning, the patient took more than a quarter of a tolali (180 grains=1 tolali) of the fresh root bark of sheth kurrubbee rubbed up with black pepper and divided into three pills. This he was advised to do to get rid of a chancre and some syphilitic eruptions on the skin, which had not yielded to prolonged treatment; within half an hour of taking it, he commenced to feel giddy and very heavy, and was obliged to lie down in bed. This was shortly followed by a general uneasy sensation and considerable restlessness. Soon after he began to get fits, in each of which his trunk and limbs became rigid and contracted, and the hands clenched, with the thumbs flexed inwards on the palms. Frofuse perspiration and a sensation of constriction round the chest also accompanied each paroxysm. A short period of partial relaxation succeeded each of them. During the third or the fourth fit, the muscles of the jaws began to be affected. He had no regular paroxysm in the hospital, but came in with a severe locked-jaw, and some rigidity of the voluntary muscles, which continued for a few hours. Previous to his admission, he had had eight fits. Constant muscular twitchings were observed all over his body, even four or five hours after he was taken in. On admission, he was ordered half a drachm of sulphate of zinc in warm water as a brisk
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