Arizona republican., 1899-05-20

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 that it is got rid of before it has time osher familiar example. This drug, if l taken in small quantities for any
 length of time, would inevitably prove i fatal: but if you swaI!Csw a pretty good quantity it is instantly rejected by the
 stomach.
 There are three c9ays in which pei
 son may get into the human body-ir- l to the stomach through the mouth, in- to the lungs through the nose and into
 the blood through a, wound in the skin.
 Now. pcis0ns aret deadly, n1i matte which way they get in. Arsenic for | instance. kills you whether you swal- lew it, rub it into 9 wound, CT breathe it as 3 vap-r But. as was said, snake paison dl2es not kill if swallowed. in tie same way. when we drink a bottle Of soda water, we take enough poisou- ous al5onic acid gas to kill us right
 off AS every ore kn~w5, earDon1c
 acid gas. when breathed into the lungs.
 is as deadly as the hangman's rope.
 It takes the place of the oxygen in our
 blood witb,-ut which life cannot con
 tinue fer five minutes; but, strange u
 say. it is quite refreshing and whole
 some when we swallow it, and as a
 matter of fact you might swallow without the slightest injury as much
 carbOniIc acid gas as would kill regj
 ment of soldiers if taken by way of their lungs. Another gas that has ex-
 actly the same properties is the foul smelling sulphuretted hydrogen. Hu,i- dreds Of. people go to drink the waters
 Of various spas, which owe their health giving virtues to this gas. In some curious way it is undoubtedly
 beneficial as 9 beverage, but If you want to die lcf gsphyxia, you cannot do
 it more easily than by breathing q
 pins or two of sulphuretted hyl- -ogen gas.
 Phosphorus is a prison which IS sometimes perfectly Harmless, too, but not in the same way as the preceding .bi-dies. Three grains of ordinary yell low phosphorous would kill nlaa,
 but ten times that amount of red phos-
 phOrous has been given to small dog, and he only begged for more. Now, yellow pilCSphoT0uS and rcd ph0sphorcus are precisely of the same composition-that is to say, each is an elem ment-tile same element-and there is nothing in one which is not in the other; but in some extraordinary way the atoms are differently arranged. At least. they are supcosed tci be, for no enc can see them-just as the particles cf sour milk are differently arranged from those of new milk-and the mar vicious result follows that one kind 0f plosphOrcus is perfectly harmless. while the other is deadly.
 Fer quite Q different reason from any Of the foregoing, many people habi5ually take large doses Of poison and thrive .cn it-that is to say, be- cause of what doctors call tolerance. or the fact that when the body gets used to certain podSions it not only likes them, but cannot get on with out them.
 The famous arsenic eaters of Syria 5wallcw this terrible drug as we eat ordinary salt. Of course, they begin in a very gingerly way, and go on in- creasing the daily consumption until man will eat as much arsenic in 9 month as would kill 100 persons. We can do something in this way our selves. Every enc remembers his first s1ncAe and the effects thereof, but he scarcely realizes that the very un- pleasant state he found himself in was really a case of partial poisoning. To- bacco is, in fact, a yirulent poison, as q Cornwall smuggler once found tcI his cost. Tle trick the custom officers he SWathed his body in tobacco leaves, and the precipitation diss'OlVipg out their E.cfson, put an end to his snug gling fCregermore. When you smoke 3 half dozen cigars CT pips6 2 day you take into your system more than q fatal dose of p0ia-1. Y1tur system is used to it, and, no doubt, feels the bet ter for it, but if you have not yet smOlEed your maiden cigar, dol't begin with half a 6,3zeQ, CT they may be your last. Whiskey and all other kinds Of alcohol are instances Of this same ''tOl- erance. Whiskey $ just like ether CT chlorof0rm-a p0iscn of tiDe ner- VoUS system Any one accus aomed to taking it could drink pint CT two day without being any the worse for ii the following week, but he has swal- lowed a dose Of poison that wotlld be as fatal as 2 dose Of prUssic acid to 2 novice.
 Then these pills, which patent medi- cine vendors sell at 25 cents box (sone more, some less), are mostly composed of alces or. ColOcynth, and both these drugs are poison, but as in the case of blue pill the stomach does not allow them to stay. Finally, there iS St BOlSC1A- OLAl111I T AOllSc11blo OA English speaking people take fatal doses of this poison every day. It does not kill, for the reason that the body has made friends with it; even without such amity, there are certain states of the body in which it derives benefit from as much as twenty fatal doses If opium If you were suffering from cholera CT hydrophobia or mad ness you could swaItcw any quantity of opium without injury; two tea 5QConfuls of opium Wiould kill you when g-u are fn good health, but you 1ould drink pint Of 1t when you are undergoing the terrible c0nvulsions Of lydIcphCtia.
 In the whole wtsli3 range of science no mystery is greaiar than this of what we call poison t2lerance Den l yer Times.