The Sun.
London, England, 1852-06-08 00:00:00

ST R YCHNIN E-BITTER BEER-LIFE
INSURANCE OFFICES.

TO TIIE EDITOR OF TILE SUN.
Sir,—ln Hooper's Medical Dictionary, 7th Edition, 1839, page
1226, under the head " Strychnia," we find the following awful an-
nouncement :—" The eighth of a grain taken into the stomach has
proved fatal to a strong dog." And, again, in the same page, refer-
ring to the dose for a human being, it goes on to say :—" The dose is
one-twelfth of a grain morning and evening, repeated more frequently
as the patient gets accustomed to it." So that, according to doctors,
the eighth of a grain will kill a strong dog, but the twelfth part of a
grain, twice a day, will cure a patient. We think, air, that it re-
quires no medical knowledge to pass a judgment on such an infernal
poison as this. " Gets accustomed" indeed 1 Can anything be more
monstrous ?
The case of the unfortunate Miss Abercrombie, who was poisoned
feloniously with this poison, he order to defraud Life Insurance Offices
to the amount of 20,0001., which is reported by the learned Mr. Jus-
tice Talfourd, in his Final Memorials of Charles Lamb, published by
Moun, Dover•street, vol. ii., page 7, proves the injurious effects
which these deadly poisons must necessarily have cn the social
state.

By the Hygeian system of James Morison, all these poisons are
denounced as being totally useless in the cure of disease, and we re-
p
eatagpoalisnonths aatr the
helder ecoaunt as in
be nmoesdaiefetyesl.n the social state so long as
these

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The MEMBERS of the BRITISH COLLEGE of HEALTH,
New-road, London,
For and on behalrof the Society of Hygeists.
London, June 1, 1852.

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