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purchased  them,  but  they  were  scarcely  ever  asked  for  except 
by  women  whose  husbands  have  been  on  the  <  spree,'  and  are 
given  to  cause  sickness  and  to  throw  up  the  dregs  of  the  drink." 
The  jury  brought  in  a  verdict  of  guilty  of  manslaughter.  The 
judge  before  pronouncing  sentence  cautioned  druggists  against 
this  practice,  and  believed  that  they  were  equally  guilty  of 
manslaughter. 
Poisoning  by  Strychnia  Jane  Dyer  came  to  her  death  at 
the  General  Hospital,  St.  Heliers,  Jersey,  on  the  30th  of 
August,  1856,  from  taking  four  pills  containing  strychnia,  which 
had  been  clandestinely  taken  from  the  Surgery  by  an  attendant 
in  ignorance  of  their  nature.  The  poison  was  detected  on  post- 
mortem examination. — Pharm.  Journ.,  Oct.,  1856. 
Poisoning  by  Black  Drop. — On  the  11th  of  Sept.,  (1856,) 
Augustus  Broughton,  son  of  Colonel  Broughton,  living  near 
Weymouth,  [Eng.]  complained  of  headache,  Mrs.  Broughton 
accordingly  wrote  to  Mr.  Barling,  chemist,  as  follows  :  "  Please 
send  an  aperient  draught  for  a  child  eleven  years  of  age."  Mr. 
Barling  being  absent,  the  note  was  given  to  one  of  his  ap- 
prentices, John  Lundie,  aged  20,  who  told  James  Barrett,  a  lad 
of  13,  to  fill  the  bottle  with  "  black  draught,"  instead  of  which 
he  filled  it  with  "black  drop"  and  gave  it  to  Lundie,  who 
labelled  it  "black  draught"  and  gave  it  to  Mrs.  Broughton's 
maid.  At  9  o'clock  the  fatal  dose  was  given  by  the  hands  of 
the  mother,  and  the  patient  became  comatose  and  soon  after  died. 
Verdict  of  the  coroner's  jury  was  in  accordance  with  the  facts. 
— Pharm.  Journ.,  Oct.,  1856. 
[From  the  evidence,  Lundie  appears  to  have  been  thoroughly 
qualified  and  the  store  in  good  standing,  the  mistake  having 
occurred  from  Lundie's  delegating  to  a  beginner  what  he  should 
have  done  himself. — Ed.] 
Poisoning  by  Sulphuric  Acid. — A  female  child,  nine  days  old, 
daughter  of  Thomas  and  Elizabeth  Brennan,  of  Runcorn,  near 
Liverpool,  came  to  its  death  by  the  corrosive  action  of  sulphuric 
acid  (as  ascertained  by  post-mortem  examination)  administered 
by  its  parents,  who,  with  a  young  man  resident  in  the  family, 
were  committed  on  the  charge  of  "  wilful  murder." — Pharm. 
Journ.,  Nov. 
Poisoning  by  Oil  of  Bitter  Almonds. — Two  instances  of 
