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chupattee, forming part of the last meal of which the deceased 

 partook. 



The latter was found to contain a very large quantity of arsenic, in 

 the form of sulphuret. 



Case 27th. — A portion of sweetmeat, which was sent by the Magis- 

 trate of the 24-Pergunnahs, on account of a similar portion having 

 produced insensibility in a young woman, to whom it had been given. 



No poison detected. 



Case 28th. — Forwarded by the Surgeon, 24-Pergunnahs, request- 

 ing information as to whether certain drugs were poisonous or not. 



They were found to be arsenious acid, in sufficient quantity to 

 have poisoned several persons : two portions were found, one opaque 

 resembling a piece of white china, the other semi-transparent and 

 crystalline. 



Case 29th. — Sent by the Officiating Magistrate of Burdwan, and con- 

 sisted of a small quantity of a dark brown, extremely putrid and 

 offensive matter in a semi-fluid state, together with particles of a 

 grayish looking substance, which had apparently not been acted upon 

 by the juices of the stomach. It was stated, on the confession of a 

 woman charged with the murder of the girl to whom it was adminis- 

 tered, to possess the property of preventing miscarriage. 



No known vegetable or mineral poison could be detected by analysis, 

 although there was no doubt that one had been administered — probably 

 datura or aconite. 



Case 30th. — Forwarded by the Civil Surgeon of Dacca, being a por- 

 tion of the contents of the stomach of a person, supposed to have 

 been poisoned. The fluid was dark-colored, foetid, nearly of the con- 

 sistence of an extract, and mixed with broken down coagula of blood. 



It was found to contain a small quantity of an acrid oleaginous 

 substance, the exact nature of which could not be ascertained. 



Case 3\st. — Sent by Mr. Balfour, Civil Assistant Surgeon of Bareilly, 

 with an interesting detail of the case. 



