194 H. Wurtz on Chemical Exanination of a Bullet. 
a small incrustation of a chalky white color, about one-<ighila if 
an inch in diameter, which when detached was found to pene — 
tite somewhat beneath the surface of the lead, and when sub- 
mitted to careful qualitative analysis, was ascertained sh consist 
wholly of chlorid of lead, containing no trace of either 
or sulphuric acid. The ‘pall was then boiled in distilled water and 
ese in the ordinary way in the agate mortar, gave a 
multitude of spangles of a soft white malleable metal, whic dD 
ing collected on a watch-glass, dried, dissolved in a drop of nitric 
acid and the solution evaporated to ‘dryness, gave with a drop 
a solution of sulphohydric acid a deep brown coloration. 
cad as very d us to obtain a orien of the pags (w a 
lead found, 
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i ip 
th deposited again in insoluble forms i os o 
pies of Patel ae veal aut ee so-called cu ve 
| “ie question whether the paralysis and post-mortem prt : 
a funk connection with the presence of the ae 
eave fr she spnsiderntion of medica men and toxicologists. 
