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No opium existed in it, but some vegetable resinous matter, which 

 could not be identified. 



Case 20th. — The stomach, its contents, and food of a man poison- 

 ed by his wife at Howrah, who acknowledged having administered a 

 portion of a root purchased in the bazaar. 



It was found to be the " Lall chittra" or plumbago root, a 

 dangerous indigenous poison. 



Case 2\st. — A goldsmith and another person were sent to the 

 Medical College Hospital in a state of insensibility, from some drug 

 which had been administered to stupify them, and enable the perpe- 

 trators to plunder the property of the former. One of them died, 

 and the Coroner sent the case for investigation. 



No poison could be detected, but there was little doubt that datura, 

 or some such substance had been administered. 



Case 22nd. — A portion of substances removed from the stomach of 

 a female, who died under suspicion of poisoning, forwarded by Mr. 

 Chester, Joint Magistrate of Gorruckpore. It was found to contain 

 nearly ten grains of arsenious acid. 



Case 23rd. — Portions of a root, found on a person in the district 

 jail of Kishnagur, and ascertained to be the bish, or aconitum ferox. 



Case 24th. — Several substances found upon the person of a man 

 at Allahabad, who attempted to destroy himself, to bring discredit 

 upon his relations. Among them were found portions of aconite, and 

 the fruit of one of the varieties of strychnos, both virulent poisons. 



Case 25th. — The contents of the stomach of a man who died 

 under circumstances of suspicion, — sent by the Magistrate of Zillah 

 Mynpooree. 



No poison discoverable. 



Case 26th. — The contents of a man's stomach, who was supposed 

 to have been poisoned at Cawnpore, together with a quantity of 



