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Updated: May 15, 2025
In one of the beautiful rings of which he was so proud, and which served to show off the fine modelling of his delicate ivory hands, he used to carry crystals of the Indian nux vomica, a poison, one of his biographers tells us, 'nearly tasteless, difficult of discovery, and capable of almost infinite dilution. His murders, says De Quincey, were more than were ever made known judicially.
Dry Valley Johnson shook the bottle. You have to shake the bottle before using; for sulphur will not dissolve. Then Dry Valley saturated a small sponge with the liquid and rubbed it carefully into the roots of his hair. Besides sulphur there was sugar of lead in it and tincture of nux vomica and bay rum. Dry Valley found the recipe in a Sunday newspaper.
The most successful method is to prepare a kind of table between the branches of a large tree, with some carrion and other meat, till the crows are accustomed to resort to the place for food. Afterwards the meat may be poisoned; and the birds still feeding on it, will be destroyed. The drug called nux vomica is best adapted to the purpose.
If the child is suffering from constipation, and undigested curds of milk appear in its faeces, and the child starts suddenly in its sleep, give nux vomica. An injection of a few spoonfuls of hot water into the rectum with a little asafoetida is an effective remedy, and will be good for an adult. This is a very frequent ailment of infants.
After a moment, preparing to rise, he said: "I am obliged to you for that drink. It is rather remarkable " "Headache all gone, hey?" "Almost entirely. I wish you would give me the name of the medicine. I will make a memorandum " "Nix," said Klinker. "Nix? Nux I have heard of, but ..." "Hold on," laughed Klinker, as he saw Queed preparing to enter Nix in his note-book.
«Un peu au-dela de Nux, la vallée cesse d'être large et plane, comme elle étoit dans le environs de la cité; elle devient étroite et très variée; l
Where is that nux?" She hunted for the medicine in her bag, and the children submitted; for they had eaten all the cherries, and they took their medicine without a murmur. "I wonder at your letting them eat the sour things, Basil," said their mother, when the children bad run off to the newsstand again. "I wonder that you left me to see what they were doing," promptly retorted their father.
Into each teaspoonful of this I shall mix tincture of nux vomica, beginning with one drop and increasing it a drop each day until the maximum dose is reached. I shall drop this with a medicine-dropper, which can be procured at a trifling cost at any pharmacy. Good morning." I took my hat and walked out. After I had closed the door I remembered something that I had forgotten to say.
The coach only stopped a quarter of an hour. "Cott!" said he, angrily, to himself, "the nux was a failure. My sensibility is chronic. I must go through a long course to get rid of it. Hollo, guard! get out my carpet-bag. I sha'n't go on to-night." And the good man after a very slight supper went upstairs again to the sufferer. "Shall I send for Dr.
Nux vomica, another medicine much used, and most important in the treatment of all nervous affections, is particularly noxious to dogs even in small quantities; a dose sufficient for a human subject under some circumstances, would almost inevitably destroy the animal under the same or analogous conditions.
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