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I see him lay on the ground, and I helped to lift him up, and there was that smell of prussic acid that I knew what he had been and done just the same as when the doctor came and told us. Before the man could be allowed to go back, there was a consultation between the father and son as to a compliance with the request which Marie had made in her first misery.
It took place on Wednesday of last week and some accounts state that it grew out of an experiment with phosphoric ether, others that it was by a too liberal indulgence in Prussic acid, an article which, from its resemblance to the peach, he was remarkably fond of having about him."
Besides, the Warroo or Guarano Indian who gave it me out on the Essequibo; it was when I went to Demerara told me it wouldn't keep. So I wouldn't trust it. Much better stick to nice, wholesome, old-fashioned Prussic Acid." He had quite dropped his serious tone, and resumed his incorrigible levity. "Did you really have it from a wild Indian? Where did he get it? Did he make it?"
Allix remarked that it would be very appropriate to employ prussic acid in killing Prussians, and explained to us that this might be effected by means of little indiarubber thimbles which the women would place on their fingers, each thimble being tipped with a small pointed tube containing some of the acid in question.
It was unnecessary he knew that even before he performed the act. Yes the man was dead He reached out and picked up the bottle. The odour was tell-tale evidence enough. The bottle had contained prussic, or hydrocyanic acid, probably the moist deadly poison in existence, and the swiftest in its action. He replaced the bottle on the spot where he had found it, and stood up.
It seemed to me that he spent far more than the usual time over this revolting ritual. I kept as firm a grip on my temper as I could and as soon as he had finished asked him in a perfectly calm and reasonable tone to be kind enough to put me out of my misery at once with prussic acid.
Coquenil tried to support him, but the body was too heavy for his bandaged hand, and the prisoner sank to the floor. "I I won the last trick, anyhow," the baron whispered as M. Paul bent over him. Coquenil picked up the ring that had fallen from a nerveless hand. He put it to his nose and sniffed it. "Prussic acid!" he muttered, and turned away from the last horrors. Two minutes later, when Dr.
A wretch kills a boy for the surgeons, by holding his head under water; 'Silly dog! cries the Morning Herald, 'why did not he clap a sponge dipped in prussic acid to the boy's mouth?" Here we were interrupted by a slight noise in the next box, which a gentleman had just entered. He was a tall man, with a handsome face and very prepossessing manner.
"Now for one word of advice to the tyro: Remember that you are working with prussic acid; therefore, never conduct the process in a room, the fumes being quite as poisonous as the solution of the acid itself; moreover, have always a bottle of ammonia or chlorine by your side, that should you have chanced to inhale more than is pleasant, it will be instantly at hand to counteract any bad effects.
Prussic acid probably accounted for fewer casualties than any other gas. This fact became apparent with the increasing use of the French Vincennite, which contained prussic acid. Yet German propaganda redoubled its efforts as time went on to inspire fear in the Allied soldiers by the threat to use prussic acid.
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