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«The wound Failidted in this case is described as penetrating — 
_ about 7 of an inch deep, and implicating the skin and muscles 
. of the right. cheek. _After the injury, the wound appears to _ 
have been incised, and ‘two small black hard substances’. * 
extracted. The patient. was treated in the Government Dis- 
'. pensary, Bankipur, and died apparently, on the third day after 
the accident, from tetanus. In the autopsy report a ooneety: 
reference only is made to the wound ; it is described as ‘ one- 
‘penetrating wound, with some swelling on the. right cheek.’ _ 
The brain and its membranes, and the lungs, liver, spleen, and 
kidneys were congested. - The coats of the stomach were con- 
: gested, and some ecchymosed spots = visible on its internat : 
- surface. The intestines were healthy. 
hte Judging from the medical evidence, death appears to have’ 
Hoos clearly due to traumatic tetanus ; and there is no record. 
of Syesptone, such as have been ceedecnd after the insertion of 
a ‘sui’ into the tissues of one of the lower animals. No 
evidence was apparently adduced to prove that the ‘two 
pieces -of small black hard papers | extracted from the 
‘wound, were really fragments of a sutari’ or. poisonous. 
The part therefore played by the poison of the ‘ sutari” is very 
problematical : and a fatal result would probably have ensued 
had the man been stabbed with a thorn, instead of with a sui. _ 
“Dr. Center* | has recorded notes of a fatal case of sui 
+ poisoning, in which the cause of death appears to have been © 
clearly traceable to the poisonous nature of the ‘ “sutari’” A 
man when sleeping was awakened in the morning by two blows - 
_ on the neck, and appears to haye’seen his assailant retreating. 
- After he went out to his work,-his mother found two sub-— 
- stances, each a little larger than a barley-corn, on his bed. 
On his return at mid-day, he complained of pain in the neck, 
and his mother found two punctures, and out of one of these 
" ghe picked a small black substance similar to those found on . 
the bed. He was taken to Rawalpindi on a charpoy, arriving 
on the following morning, when he was immediately examined Be: 
by Dr. Ince, who reports—‘I found a swelling on the Fight side © 
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} a tec Chemical Examiner, Punjab, 1873. : 
