The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1883-03-28
Arsenic Eating.

Arsenic Eating.
Speaking OF weakness of the gentlel
sex, says Talbot, in his observations in
the Cleveland Herald, 1 met my friend,
the doctor, yesterday, and as he and J
stood and surveyed the passing show,
plump, fair woman passed by, and said
to him: What charming Complexionp'
"Short-lived, though, my dear boy"
quoth he. 1 expressed surprise, for my
charmer was Young. "Arsenic! Talbot
arsenicp' said he calmly Then il
dawned upon me what he meant. Re
suming, he said: 'Its use is increasing.
Women use it in two forms; the white
powder, that caused poor Jennie era.
mer's death, or arsenious acid, as tht
drug dealers have it, and Fowler's solu
ton, which the pharmacopia says is p
mixture of arsenic with potash in a fluid
form. Either way of taking arsenic pro
duces the plumpness Of face and BEAUTY
of complexion that you noticed in yOn
fair lady. Its influence is principally on
the capillary surface of the skin, which
produces the plumpness In plain En-
glish, water is the influence at work, and
in the end it shows itself. The skin as
sumes a watery transparency, which in
its turn gives way to ghastliness and
whitening of the lips That is the
awakening from the blissful dream.
Beauty vanishes and the end comes.
Horrible? o, no! 1 call it retribution.
Cynical? Perhaps! but plain truth gen
orally is, my dear boy, in these days of
! ours. Arsenic eating can be stopped al
any time, without an effort, except that
which vanity breads. 1t has none Of
the sOphOriiic effects of opium or NOR.
phine. Used as a medicine it is an ex
cellent tonic, one of the best known"
! GLOW long can arsenic be used before
it produces the ghastiness you speak
of?' 1 asked my mentor.
"SiX weeks unbrOken dosing will dc
the work well and effectually," answered
he, "but woman is skillful, and using i
a week she pauses, and before the effec
of the cessation comes she takes another
interval of arsenic dosing. Thus fate il
held off. The end must come, however
and it comes all too soon for the arsenic
eaters. Some systems agree with thu
drug longer than others, but few year
of the periodical eating settlesit Verify
was it said Vanity, thy name j
woman.
'It is an astonishing thing" went ol
Esculapius the Cynic, "that you canno
kill pig with arsenic. had a frient
who was an enthusiastic chemist H
had preserved lot of cherries in an ar
senical solution, and having no further
use for them threw them one mornin!
from his laboratory window. A rambling
porker, on the lookout for edible trifes
saw them drop, and looking them owe
and contrasting them with the usual ex
panse of tile, brickbat and old tin can
on which it had been his daily wont t
brOuse, eagerly swallowed them. NJ,
friend was alarmed and visions of bill
for dead andiuneatable pig rose like
spectre before his eyes. He chased tn
pig away and thought perhaps its deaf
might not be laid at his door if the pi
was not there when it expired. The Incl
dent warned him, but on the following
morning he was dumbfOunded to see tn
pig waiting for more of the deadly fruit
Some were prepared, for my friend wa
an investigator, and dOled out to hi
hogship. He devoured them and gruntet
a mufiied paen in their praise, Eacl
morning that pig returned, and eacl
morning the dose was increased unit
my friend was ruined and the pigs con
fidenoe in arsenical cherries strOnge
than ever"
left my mentor with the fear that h
had not been sbiding in the path of trutl
that his honOred parents had prescribed