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“Is one of the most active poisons. Dr. Christison says, ‘I have killed a dog in two minutes with a sixth of a grain, injected in the form of alcohol solution into the chest; I have seen a wild boar killed in the same manner, with a third of the grain, in ten minutes; and there is little doubt that half a grain, trust into a wound, would kill a man in less than a quarter of an hour.’ Notwithstanding its poisonous qualities, it is used in medicine, and whether given in the form of nux vomica, or in its purer form of strychnia, it acts very beneficially in come kinds of paralysis, and in a few other diseases where the nervous system is chiefly affected.” (167/146) | “Is one of the most active poisons. Dr. Christison says, ‘I have killed a dog in two minutes with a sixth of a grain, injected in the form of alcohol solution into the chest; I have seen a wild boar killed in the same manner, with a third of the grain, in ten minutes; and there is little doubt that half a grain, trust into a wound, would kill a man in less than a quarter of an hour.’ Notwithstanding its poisonous qualities, it is used in medicine, and whether given in the form of nux vomica, or in its purer form of strychnia, it acts very beneficially in come kinds of paralysis, and in a few other diseases where the nervous system is chiefly affected.” (167/146) | ||
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Nux Vomica
Strychnine
A Compendium of Domestic Medicine, 1865
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“Is one of the most active poisons. Dr. Christison says, ‘I have killed a dog in two minutes with a sixth of a grain, injected in the form of alcohol solution into the chest; I have seen a wild boar killed in the same manner, with a third of the grain, in ten minutes; and there is little doubt that half a grain, trust into a wound, would kill a man in less than a quarter of an hour.’ Notwithstanding its poisonous qualities, it is used in medicine, and whether given in the form of nux vomica, or in its purer form of strychnia, it acts very beneficially in come kinds of paralysis, and in a few other diseases where the nervous system is chiefly affected.” (167/146)