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So he walked on, for feelings of delicacy prevented him from gazing any longer at the men with the golden girdles; but as he went he pondered on the misery he had seen, and thought to himself that this golden sand did more mischief than all the poisons of the apothecary; for it dazzled the eyes of some, it strained the hearts of others, it bowed down the heads of many to the earth with its weight; it was a sore labor to gather it, and when it was gathered the robber might carry it away; it would be a good thing, he thought, if there were none of it.
Well, the Sakai inflicts no suffering upon his foe. The terrible poisons with which he tinges his fatal arrows cause almost immediate death, and his sole motive for killing is to rid himself of one whom he thinks will do him harm, but should his enemy run away before he can hit him he would neither follow nor lay an ambush for him. He might almost take as his motto the celebrated line by Niccolini: Ripassi l'Alpi e torner
"I am performing miracles in my parish with garlic for whooping-cough." Another: "We conquered the whooping-cough here with a pennyworth of salt of tartar, after having filled them with the expensive poisons of Halford. What an odd thing that such a specific should not be more known!"
It was a tiny glass bottle, no bigger than a bean, made at Venice, and containing a poison so subtle that by breaking it between the teeth death came instantly and painlessly. He had received it from Signora Tophana, the celebrated maker of poisons of the town of Rome. Now this tiny bottle was under the bezel of a ring, preserved from all objects that could break it by certain plates of gold.
The black rim seen more or less distinctly in the outer rim of the iris in the eyes of the majority of people has been called the scurf rim, because it was found that this dark rim appears in the iris after the suppression of scurfy and other forms of skin eruptions and after the external or internal use of lotions, ointments and medicines containing mercury, zinc, iodine, arsenic or other poisons which suppress or destroy the life and activity of the skin.
He again went into the forest, and daily found poisonous and bitter herbs and roots. These he bruised and put the juices into water, which he drank. Then he drank other juices which acted as antidotes and prevented his sickness or death. He did this day after day until his constitution became used to the poisons, and he was able to drink them freely without any harm coming to him.
On former occasions when I visited him, Colonel Unsworth used to show me a small museum of poisons, knives, revolvers, etc., which he had taken from those who proposed to use them to cut the Gordian knot of life. Now, however, he has but few of these dreadful relics. I asked him what he had done with the rest. He answered that he had destroyed them.
"He won't die of the bite, but I think he will of the whisky," replied the disgusted practitioner. But he didn't. His splendid physique pulled him through. It was long, however, before he wholly recovered from the effects of the two poisons. This was in a Hudson River town. Only a few miles away a negro boy, shortly after, was struck by a copperhead on the bare leg.
On the mantel-piece in the coroner's court the other day, I saw corked and labelled phials, which it may be presumed contained samples of poisons that have brought some poor wretches to their deaths, either by murder or suicide.
Beware of Tainted Food. The most dangerous fault that any food can have is that it shall be tainted, or spoiled, or smell bad. It is the poisons called ptomaines, or toxins produced by these germs which cause the serious disturbances in the stomach, and not either the amount or the kind of food itself.
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