On a Case of Poisoning by Corrosive Sublimate

ance to the action of the poison. According to him, salivation and even death may occur from the smallest doses of mercury. Every general practitioner must acknowledge the numerous idiosyncrasies that meet him in the prescribing of any mercurial preparation. Hence it is reasonable to suppose that the poisonous dose must in like manner vary considerably. In our own city Dr Littlejohn informs me that within the last thirty years he had met with only two cases of corrosive sublimate poisoning (the fatal dose in neither have I ascertained) until this summer, when two fresh cases have been reported, one of which is the case I am going to relate. It has, as will be seen, a special medico-legal interest, on account of absence of mercury in the system after death.