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Arsenious acid was found in large quantity in the stomach. The 

 death of the woman was attributed by those who brought in the 

 body, to her having struck herself on the head several times with a 

 stone or brick. 



Case 32nd. — A case from the Civil Assistant Surgeon of Allahabad, 

 forwarding for analysis, the contents of the stomach of a woman, 

 supposed to have been poisoned. It was unaccompanied by any 

 details, and no poison could be detected. 



Case 33rd. — Two packages from the Assistant to the Governor 

 General's Agent at Maunbhoom, supposed to contain poisons. 



In the one, was found a small quantity of impure bazaar opium. 

 The second package contained half-cooked and partially digested food, 

 in a state of putrescence. No vegetable or mineral poison could be 

 detected in it, and no case accompanied the matter sent for analysis. 



Case 34th. — Two packages from the Surgeon to the 24-Purgun- 

 nahs. 



The one contained particles of raw rice, with trace of a white 

 looking substance, the nature of which could not be ascertained, as it 

 presented none of the chemical characters of any known mineral 

 or vegetable poison. 



In the other parcel were found a piece of chalk, two small circular 

 portions of common brick, and half a dozen round, black looking 

 masses, consisting of fragments of the leaf of tobacco, with probably 

 a small amount of opium and datura in a fine state of division. 



Case 35th. — Four bottles, forwarded by the Sessions Judge of 

 Bhaugulpore, through the Chief Magistrate of Calcutta, containing 

 the contents of the stomach of three persons alleged to have been 

 poisoned. 



These were accompanied by an exceedingly interesting abstract of the 

 case from the Judges, together with an outline of the post-mortem 

 examination made by the Civil Surgeon. 



Although it was distinctly admitted by the prisoners that poison 

 had been administered, none could be detected by analysis. From 



