Poisoning by Opium—Death

soon after taking it, she became insensible, and some time after vomited once. Opium is sold here at 5 annas per tolah?a tolah being equal to 3 drachms; she must, therefore, have taken about 30 or 36 grains. He got a local homoeopathic practitioner to attend, her, who gave her only about a tea-spoonful of a mixture every 2 hours, made up of a few drops of a brown liquid, in a lar^e quantity of water ; finding signs of approaching death, lie advised her being brought to the Charitable Hospital. On admission, I found her quite insensible; she could not be roused at all; breathing in jerks 12 times in a minute; gurgling noise in throat; pulse 116, small and soft; pupils moderately dilated ; insensible to light; conjunctiva) injected. Body felt warmer than natural. I tried to make her swallow one grain of extract of belladonna, dissolved in 2 drachms of water, but this almost choked her, though she ultimately swallowed it. with a gulp. I then commenced giving her the following every hour:?