LECTURE IV. 17Q 



tioii may occasionally occur. A misera- 

 ble woman took opium during the night 

 in St. Bartholomew's Hospital in order to 

 destroy herself, and before she was noticed 

 next morning her purpose was nearly ac- 

 complished. With scarcely any hopes, I 

 injected into her stomach, by means of a 

 varnished catheter introduced down the 

 oesophagus from the right nostril, some le- 

 monade, to which cordials and a solution of 

 sulphat of zinc were added, in hopes of ex- 

 citing the stomach and provoking it to 

 vomit. Having injected in repeated doses 

 what appeared to me to be a fully suffi- 

 cient quantity, and waited till no hopes 

 of success remained, I left the room. Some 

 of the students, however, knowing the case 

 to be desperate, injected more of the liquor, 

 and when the body was afterwards examined, 

 the stomach and gullet were found filled 

 and distended up to the tln*oat ; nay 

 a small quantity of the liquor had ac- 

 tually overflowed the rima glottidis, and 

 descended by the windpipe into the lungs. 

 On the contrary, however, the pylorus in the 



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