Poisoning by Antimony
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then again there is the Bravo case, and those of Cook, llcMullan and Winslow, and lastly, the more'recent cases of Palmer and Klosowski. Poisoning by salts of antimony has occasionally been recorded in India, but it is usually spoken of as a rare occurrence in this country Is this really the fact, and lias arsenic such an absolute monopoly for criminal purposes as is generally believed ? Although the classical symptoms of poisoning by ?antimony are well known, in spite of the fact that very minute amounts of the drug can be detected with certainty in the body long after death, and although antimony has been proved to have a remarkably preservative effect on
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دوره 38 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2016