Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1858-12-04
EIGHTH DAY.
WEpNEspAY, Nov. 2


nine patient dies in asphyxia. ! never read
of my experiments upon the spinal chord
in testing for strychnine and in the cases
of the dogs never failed to obtain strych-
nine was induced to look for it in the spi-
nal chord on account of It's affecting that
particularly. disnterred the body after
the last trial at Coles request. Mind is clear
in tetanus- particularly 81. Think about q
grains Of opium minimum fatal dose; re-
missions sometimes occur in cases of opium
poisons-have known one case: spasms
sometimes occur in opium poisoning. In
II drains horse medicine was ! of grain
Of arsenic.
CRoss-Ex. After taking poisonous dose
Of arsenic and so hours elapsed, il would
mostly be absorbed; according the authori-
tiles would ordinarily be found in liver; had
never made any experiments in testing for
stryehuine till since the former trial; did
not examine the spinal chord, liver and
blood, so don't know whether it can be
found in all these or not--that is in the
same animal; think if taken in poisonous
doses it ought TO be found; think the fifty
thousandth part of grain of strychnlne
could be detected. | have never expert
mented upon a human subject for stryeh-
nine: have examined animals known to
have taken il, and found the same; think
strychnine has its effect upon the blood: al
kaloids are compound bodies: think strych-
nine undergoes solution--not decomposi
ton. Stauss process has succeeded in all
cases where the subject was not medicated.
A poisonous dose of laudanum containing
two grains of arsenic, think the irritation
caused by the arsenic might modify the eff
feet of the laudanum.
DR.. z. H. .SDeeny. Am physician
practised 10 years: chiefly educated in al
lopathy: practise homeopathy. Arsenic
is frequently for horses about Garrettsville:
a aphysician there who administers it in case
of worms in horses. Spssms rare in arse
nical poisoning: suppose five or six grains
of arsenic with ! drains laudanum, might
produce train of symptoms similar to the
one now under investigation.
Dr. p. G. Bennett. reside in Free
dom, Portage County: practised 25 years
or thereabouts: resided in Ohio % or %
years: l have been in the habit of using
strychnine as medicine, also arsenic, for
some time. Effects of arsenic have an al
most infinite variety: sometimes produces
spasms; death usually occurs in "a hours:
think in a mixture, opium would diminish
the effect of arsenic mixed with Ii drains
of laudanum: might produce a train of
symptoms similar to the case under consid-
Grafton.
DR.. AneoS K F5feld. Reside in Come
aut-practised years: received education
partly at Cleveland, and partly at New York
city: have given some little attention to
poisons: have consulted Christison and
Taylor: think there is no doubt but what
tetanic commissions or spasms may be pro-
duced by arsenic. Arsenical symptoms
are well known to be very variable; think
the symptoms in fatal dose of arsenic and
lau1anum would be very uncertain -spasms
might proceed from the arsenic in such a
case: symptoms would be uncertain in de-
termining an iFritant poison: remissions are
to have occurred in arsenical poi
son: recollect one case in Christison: arse
mic begins to manifest itself from 20 min
utes to an hour after being exhibited: think
death would occur in about "a hours-a
chronic case would be where patient fingers
along for six or seven days, with a return
of symptoms. Great thirst is peculiar to
arsenic-not invariabe but ordinary: thirst
indicates irritation of the mucus membrane:
should look for great hest where there was
great irritation of mucus membrane: heat
arises from the process of the production of
carbonic acid: not very clear as to the man
ner in which it is evolved from the air:
think absence of heat would be character
istic of strychnine poison: strychnine very
bIttef: think it would be tasted when mixed
with other substances: should expect pa
tient would complain of its being 1ii:ter: we
look for rigidily in tetanus, however pro-
duced: sensitiveness to touch is peculiar to
tetanus: think it is dependent upon the su-
per-excited state of the nervous system:
should think that arsenic and laudanum
might produce train of symptoms similar
to that now under investigation, as stated
by Mr. Thrasher.
CRoss-Ex. To Mr.. Riddles supposed
cases witness said he should think first of
strychnine, but think arsenic might possibly
bring about such state Of things. Should
expect from administration Of arsenic and
laudanum, that the laudanum might pre-
vent in some degree irritation by the arsen-
ic should expect irritation of the stomach
would be found after death: greatest guam
tty is usually found in the liver: should
think arsenic taken in medicinal quantities
one week previous might be found in the
liver-not certain. In answer to Mr.. Rid
dies supposition concluded there might be
such remission. and then return-pOssible,
but highly improbable. Laudanum is COM
monty administered for tetanic spasms.
Court adjourned to o'clock.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Fri Black sOOrn. / reside 10 Jefferson
came here last December. | was at Len
OK a few evenings since to a spree saw
Walker Eggeston there. Here the prose-
cation objected to the testimony as going to
prove that Walker Eggleston had been
drunk the night before he was called up on
the stand. Ruled out by the Court
Wm. j. Church. / reside in Geauga
couuty-wss a juror on the former trial:
have paid some attention to horse farriery:
arsenic is medicine in common use for hor-
ses: so also is laudanum: one author rec
ommends the use of arsenic and opium to-
gether for worms.
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