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Jim was the typical East End loafer, a bullet head, closely cropped; dull round eyes, and fat nose, also rounded; a thick neck, and fat cheeks, in which were plainly to be seen the overdoses of beer and spirits he had drunk since he was ten or twelve years old. His mother had tried to keep him respectable. She had been a lady's maid; but that portion of her life was buried in mystery.
And if it had been Smethurst instead of Smith who committed the error of judgment if the overdoses by which he had meant to kill had happened to cure would his error of judgment have thereby been rendered moral, notwithstanding that his motive was murder?
Godfrey's Cordial was the chief engine of destruction; the corps of inspectors who reported to the Government finding infants in all stages of prostration, from the overdoses of the popular specific warranted to render any attention from nurse or mother quite unnecessary.
Fox, when from the other side of the lawn she saw him alight. "Another young man with a valise! It seems to me that this is an overdose!" "Overdoses," remarked Mr. Fox, "are often less dangerous than just enough poison." Mrs. Easterfield received this visitor at the door. She had been waiting for him, and did not wish him to meet anybody when she was not present.
She's suffering from marasmus, provoked by overdoses of the pernicious stuff that is given by ignorant and unscrupulous people to a restless child to keep it quiet. But her real trouble comes of maternal weakness, and the only cure for that is good nourishment and above all fresh air and sunshine." "Will she get better?" "If you can take her away, into the country she will, certainly."
The doctor has told me what is the immediate cause of my baby's illness and your wife has confessed to giving overdoses of a drug at your direction. If you don't leave this house in one minute I'll go straight to the police-station and charge you with poisoning my child." The bully in the coward was cowed in a moment. "Don't get 'uffy, ma'am," he said.
Some of this action may be due to the narcotic effect of alcohol on the cerebrum. Alcohol may thus in many instances act for good. Overdoses, as shown by cerebral excitation, flushing of the face and increased pulse rate, will do harm; in fact, many a patient with a serious illness, as typhoid fever or pneumonia, is made delirious by alcohol.
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