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It is not my business if a white man makes a fool of himself. Now we want morphine and hypodermic syringe." Tamada rolled up the captain's sleeve. The flesh, shrunken, pallid, was closely spotted with dot-like scars that showed livid, as if the captain had been suffering from some strange rash. Lund whistled softly. Rainey, too, knew what it meant.
Before the day of the hypodermic needle and of experimental medicine, the foreign proteins found in the body outside the alimentary tract were brought in by invading microorganisms. Such organisms interfered with and destroyed the host. The body, therefore, was forced to evolve a means of protection against these hostile organisms.
=Calabar Bean or Physostigma.= The bean of Physostigma venenosum contains the alkaloid physostigmine or eserine, with the antagonistic alkaloid calabarine. Symptoms. Vomiting, giddiness, irregular cardiac action, contraction of the pupils, paralysis of lower extremities, and death from asphyxia. Treatment. Emetics; hypodermic injection of 1/50 grain sulphate of atropine, repeated if necessary.
The weather turned mild, and I did not use my overcoat again. But this evening I hunted through its pockets looking for a mislaid letter, and I found my hypodermic syringe. "I was considerably puzzled; for I have given many hypodermics since I used that coat. So I searched through the pockets of the clothes I have on and found the syringe I have been using constantly.
The face came first in a cloud of flower-spotted purple that he knew clearly was in some way related to the hypodermic needle Frank had plunged into his arm while the sunset still lay painted on the window. . . . It took form in the purple like a pansy that face grew sweet and vivid and very real.
Amaryllis wiped her lips, and Dick Bellamy thought her cheeks nearly as white as the little handkerchief. "What did the fellow do?" asked Randal. "For one thing, I discovered that he carried a hypodermic syringe; so I watched him morphia not a bad case, but getting worse. And then," said Caldegard, looking towards his daughter, "he had the presumption " "Oh, father, please!" cried Amaryllis.
I accuse him of profiting by the relations which Gaston Sauverand had established with the infirmary in order to communicate with Marie Fauville, and of arranging for Marie Fauville to receive the hypodermic syringe and the phial of poison with which the poor woman was able to carry out her plans of suicide." Perenna paused to note the effect of these charges.
The country doctor had come, too, finding Tillie's trial not imminent. On the way in he had taken it for granted that K. was a medical man like himself, and had placed his hypodermic case at his disposal. When he missed him, in the smoking-room, that was, he asked for him. "I don't see the chap who came in with us," he said. "Clever fellow. Like to know his name." The staff did not know.
After he was in bed, she heard him singing for a long time until his voice droned away to drowsiness. She lay silent and motionless. Aunt Janet came in. She took up the hypodermic syringe impassively. Marcella shook her head. "No. I want to think to-night. Louis's coming on Monday. I've to think of some way of not letting him know how ill I am, because of his work," she said.
The woman still breathed faintly, her mouth was twisted into a sardonic and pertinent expression. His hand sought his pocket and brought forth a case. He opened it and stared at the hypodermic syringe. His trembling fingers closed about it and moved toward the woman.
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