132 Cafes of Mifchief hy Arfenic* 
mended in this dangerous Cafe, along with 
the foregoing Remedies, as a Corre&or of 
this Poifon, and fo likewife is Milk. The 
fame Method is advifeable where Sublimate 
lias been fwallowed, but then it muft be em¬ 
ployed very fpeedily, or no Relief can be ex¬ 
pected. After either of thefe Poifons has 
been difcharged, drinking Milk for a few 
Days, and a gentle Purge or two, are very 
proper to complete the Cure 
* Dr. Blair, in bis Letter to Dr. Mead, on the Effects 
of Arfcnic upon human Bodies, gives two remarkable 
Cafes ; the one of a Woman, who was killed by this Poi¬ 
fon mixed with Flummery ; which fhe eating about eleven 
o’Clock at Night, was feized immediately with violent 
Purgings and Vomitings, that continued till four o’Clock 
in the Morning, when fhe died convulfive. The Poifon 
bad been fo well wrapt up in the Flummery, that on 
her being opened the Oefophagus was no ways altered 1 
bat the Doftor was furprized to find the Stomach fo full 
of Liquor, having been informed flie had eat or drank 
very little the Day before the Poifon was given. It 
contained a greenifh Subftance, without any Colour or 
Appearance of fuch a digefted Mafs as ufes to be in 
the Stomach, with feveral thick Coagula about, the Big- 
nefs of Walnuts, fufpending fome fmall Quantities of a 
whitifh grofs Powder. When this Liquor was emptied, 
he found reddifh and blackilh Striae all over the Pilorus, 
feeing fo many inflamed Lines refembiing the Branchings 
of Blood-veffels, upon which the grofs, whitifh, hard 
Powder lay in fuch Quantity, that after being well dried 
it weighed between a Scruple and half a Dram. All 
along the Inteftines, as he laid them open down to the 
Anus, he found fo much of the fame Kind of Liqtyor, 
without either Colour, Confidence, or Smell of an Ex¬ 
crement, as filled a Quart Bottle: which feemed extra¬ 
ordinary, confidering the great Evacuations before her 
Death. Hs infers, that she Glands throughout the whole 
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