On a Mode of Poisoning by Insertion of the Poison into the Subcutaneous Tissue

By Surgeon-Major T. E. B. Brown, Principal, Medical School, Lahore; late Chemical Examiner for the Punjab. Of late years a method of poisoning has been used in some t)<\rta c\f Punjab, which is not described in books. It lias neipany been employed for the destruction of cattle, but in a few cases human beings have been killed in the same way. It consists in the introduction of some irritant poison, usually arsenious acid, or croton tiglium seeds, into the subcutaneous cellular tissue, in the form of a small, hard, conical solid, made up into a thin needle-like shape, about ? an inch long and of