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contain a trace of sulphuret of arsenic, to which the death was not 

 attributed, but to some vegetable narcotico-acrid, not discoverable by 

 analysis. 



Case 14th. — A case of supposed poisoning, — sent by the Surgeon, 

 24-Pergunnahs, who forwarded the uterus, stomach, and portion of 

 the contents of the latter, of a woman who was presumed to have been 

 killed by the administration of some drug, given for the purpose of 

 procuring abortion. 



No chemical or pathological evidence was elicited to countenance 

 the supposition of poisoning, or render it improbable that she had 

 not died from disease. 



Case 1 5 th. — Certain substances forwarded by the Acting Sessions 

 Judge of Bhaugulpore, through the Chief Magistrate of Calcutta. 

 Arsenic and tabasheer were found, the former a poison, the latter inert. 



Case 16th. — Three small packages from Mr. Turnbull, Magistrate 

 of East Burdwan ; one of which contained datura stramonium (frag- 

 ments of the seeds), the other a variety of substances, none of them 

 poisonous. 



Case 17 th. — Portions of the intestines of three persons who were 

 supposed to have been poisoned. They were in an extremely disgust- 

 ing and offensive state of putrescence, from the improper and careless 

 manner in which they were packed and transmitted to Calcutta. The 

 chemical examination elicited nothing, nor was it likely to be attended 

 with success, unless some mineral substance had been administered. 



Case 18th. — Forwarded by Mr. Turnbull, Magistrate of East Burd- 

 wan, and consisting of a small quantity of a brown foetid fluid, toge. 

 ther with some dark colored substance adhering to paper. 



No poison could be detected. 



Case \9th. — A portion of some substance found in the stomach 

 of a man supposed to have been poisoned by opium, — forwarded by 

 the Civil Surgeon, Dacca. 



