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VII. — On a Case of Poisoning hy Sulphate of Protoxide 



of Iron. 



By Mr. F. Grace Calvert, Hon. Professor of Chemistry, 

 Royal Manchester Institution. 



[Read January 26<A, 1853.] 



As the recorded cases of poisoning by sulphate of protoxide 

 of iron are rare, there being only two cases described in 

 Christison and Taylor's valuable works, and a third which 

 occurred about twelve months ago, I believe it may prove 

 interesting to some of the members of our Society to have a 

 case presented to their notice which I have recently examined; 

 the more so as, owing to the kindness of Dr. Brown (the 

 Lecturer on Medicine, and one of my colleagues at the Royal 

 Medical School here,) I am enabled to give an anatomical des- 

 cription of the stomach and intestines, which has not hitherto 

 been given in cases of poisoning with green copperas. 



On Thursday, the 4th of December last, Mr. Girdleston, 

 surgeon, at Shelton, brought me the stomach and intestines 

 of John Hill, late of Bagnall, near Stoke, Staffordshire, who 

 had died, he supposed, from the effects of some irritant 

 poison ; he had found all the organs of the deceased healthy, 

 with the exception of the stomach and intestines, which were 

 highly inflamed. Mr. Girdleston also stated that at about half- 

 past nine o'clock on the morning of the 27th of November, 

 the deceased had been seized with sickness and purging, which 

 continued up to the period of his death, about nine o'clock 

 the same evening. 



