RANUNCULACE. 9 
As regards the percentage of aconite detections in articles 
suspected to be poisons, the following are the Chemical 
Analyser’ s figures for Bengal :— 
~ Average of six years ending March 31st 1883 ...2°82 
Nine months of 1883 2°20 
1884 caves 2°10 
1885... pie . ict 4°50 
1886 3°10 
1887 : 1:10 
As a cattle poison aconite is rarely used in Bengal. In 
Madras aconite was. only found in cases in Class A, viz., 
human cases in which it was suspected that poison had been 
administered, and in which one or more of the following, viz., 
viscera, vomited matters and stools were forwarded for 
examination :— ; ; 
Year. No. of cases examined. _ Aconite detected, 
1882 1 : 
1883 123 
1884 85 1 
1885 81 1 
1886 84 0 
1887 76 4 
No aconite detections are recorded in Class B, ‘viz., food — 
and other articles suspected to be poisons. 
: in Bombay two detections of aconite were made in 1879-80, 
_ one in human viscera, and the other in food, the total number _ 
_ of examinations made in the same year being 105. In 1884, 
4 two detections were made in a total of 83 examinations, one 
_ in human viscera and the other in liquor. Dr. Lyon remarks 
_ that aconite (like datura) appears to be occasionally used 
3 oy native liqaor dealers for the purpose of conferring — 
additional intoxicating power on alcoholic liquor, sometimes 
’ with fatal results. The Bombay Analyser’s reports. fo 
; years @1 ing 1884 show only six. cases Face aconite_poi 
_ three of which y 2 accid 
