Case of Strychnia Poisoning
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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 expression, the pupils were slightly contracted, the pulse high, the respiration hurried, and the whole body was bathed in a profuse sweat. To my hurried inquiries I received a reply that the man had been found about noon lying in the hospital compound in a semi-unconscious state, and that after a little time he hud confessed to swallowing fifteen grains of strychnia ; the reason for
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