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Ref NoDEP/ANO/46/29
TitleIllustration titled ‘Stomach of woman of 47 who committed suicide by taking white Acid of Arsenic’
Date1 October 1835
Description Of ItemColour illustration of the stomach of a woman who died by ingestion of white arsenic. Note on reverse states she lived for three days after ingestion, two of which were spent at the Royal Infirmary [of Edinburgh]. The quantity of arsenic ingested could not be ascertained. Whilst at the Royal Infirmary the patient had a very weak pulse and constant vomiting. The mucus membrane was inflamed, and a ‘line of separation chiefly at Pyloric Extremity’
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