Aconitine Nitrate gr.

1/640." "Ha!" exclaimed Thorndyke, "this fellow was well up in alkaloidal poisons, it seems; and they appear to have gone about prepared for emergencies.

These tubes each contained twenty tabloids, a thirty-second of a grain altogether, so we may assume that about twelve times the medicinal dose was swallowed.

Death must have occurred in a few minutes, and a merciful death too." "A more merciful death than they deserved," exclaimed Stephen, "when one thinks of the misery and suffering that they inflicted on poor old uncle Jeffrey.

I would sooner have had them hanged." "It's better as it is, sir," said Miller.