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Craig poured a little of one of the blood samples from the jar into a tube and added a few drops of ether. A cloudy dark precipitate formed. He smiled quietly and said, half to himself, "I thought so." "What is it?" asked the coroner eagerly. "Nux vomica?" Craig shook his head as he stared at the black precipitate.
"Well," asked Kennedy, pausing with a test-tube poised over a Bunsen burner, "have you found anything yet? I haven't had time to get very far with my own tests yet." "Not a blessed thing," returned the coroner. "I'm desperate. One of the chemists suggested cyanide, another carbon monoxide. But there is no trace of either. Then he suggested nux vomica.
Others, again, intoxicate or poison them, by mixing with the repast prepared for them the cocculus indicus, or the nux vomica.
It wasn't nux vomica; but my tests show that it must have been something very much like it. I've looked for all the ordinary known poisons and some of the little-known alkaloids, but, Kennedy, I always get back to the same point. There must have been a poison there. He did not die primarily of the wound.
He brought his book to the window, contrived to read the label on a pigmy bottle. "Nux! that's it," he said, and he swallowed a globule! "Now," quoth he, after a pause, "I don't care a straw for the misfortunes of other people; nay, I have half a mind to let down the window." Helen looked up. "But I'll not," he added resolutely; and this time he fell fairly asleep.
God created that just as He created henbane and nux vomica and copperas and belladonna and all other poisons, whether directly created by Himself or extracted by man. That it is a poison no man of common sense will deny. A case was reported where a little child lay upon its mother's lap and one drop fell from a pipe to the child's lip, and it went into convulsions and into death.
But that would be easily cured, when she could get to her bag, with three globules of nux vomica and darling Derek must not be waked up for anything! She waited thus till Nedda came back, and then said, "Sssh!"
No one would easily guess that the name nutmeg had anything to do with musk; but the word comes from the name which Latin writers in the Middle Ages gave to this useful seed nux muscata, "musky nut."
In a report of a poisoning case now on trial, where we are told that arsenic enough was found in the stomach to produce death in twenty-four hours, the patient is said to have been treated by arsenic, phosphorus, bryonia, aconite, nux vomica, and muriatic acid, by a practitioner of what school it may be imagined.
She had forgotten everything that happened in the minutes before Catty had come down the passage. She filled in the footprint and stroked the earth smooth above it, lest Mamma should see it and remember. Potnia, Potnia Nux Lady, our Lady, Night, You who give sleep to men, to men labouring and suffering Out of the darkness, come, Come with your wings, come down On the house of Agamemnon.
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