214 Arsenic Eating, and its influence upon 
rer and ee by their — Many people ps oe" that the finding 
their bodie the origin of ~ tory of the vampire. In the Medicinischer 
Ke fes- 
vd rbuch de 
sor Schallgruber, of the Imperial ios ceum at Gritz, of an ese undertaken 
y or 
y r of government into various cases = “see ing ro arse After giving 
details of six post-mortem examinations, he —‘ The on ot ‘the pire of 
these sad cases appears to me to be the fiir with iss which exi 
app 
country, particularly the higher par arts, There is hardly a district 4 in Ope Styria 
where you will not find arsenic in at least one oan under the name of hydrach. 
ese ; and, in 
several cases of poisoning by cheese have occu in Upper Styria, one not long 
since. The above-mentioned pennant states, I belts ‘traly, that they buy the 
nic from the Tyrolese, who bring into the country, spirits and se medicines, and 80 
are the cause of much mischief. is report is, eli ieve, mentio in Orfila’s Toxi- 
when an assistant in eee he knew a man who began sere pa for some 
i ily. 
=" supplied him with this dose daily for along time. He wrote to 
ith whom he was assistant, and I have been for a long time promised fal par 
telat of Agee a We beyond the fact that he took five grains of arsenic, 10 the 
of Fowler’s ‘alates daily, for about six years, and could never leave it off 
taint inconvenience and a return a his old complaint, I have yet ro recelv! 
them. I have delayed publishing these facts for some time, hoping to get in 
on some other points, for which I have written to my friends a int con 
tho 
“9nd. Do medi ca men in n thee Lire a when using arsenic ae 
mode of living while gear itt 
“ 8rd. Can any evidence oe ebladaed as . how much of the arsenic taken — 
ereted? to show whether the body anaes ally — ogee of enduring its pre* 
ence, or whether it acquires the power of throwing it his 
“T have e proposed to the gen stleaian: who furnished ber ‘vith the Labs" <— ad 
Own case either to make an estimate of the arsenic contained in his that 
feces during twenty-four hours, or to collect the same and furwa d feels to 
I may do so, but as yet have received no answer.’— Pharmaceutical Jou 
The se — is that direct nh oan ett: pc te 
1860, ii, 44,) we took occasion to urge this point a sp 
forward the observation of Prof. E. Ko +, who found ne 
course of his experiments upon arsenic acid—whic ma? 
factured upon the great scale and largely employed in calico-p"™” 
oe of the preservation of the bodies shows that some considerable Mit 
tity must be retained [or rather offers an aah of the well know2 
corpses loaded with fat decompose but slowly.—r. a. 8.] 
+ Comptes Rendus, 1856, xlii, 1063 ; J. pr. Ch. Ixix, 273. 
