[Illustration: PRUSSIC ACID.

"Which means prussic acid," said Godfrey, "and not snake poison."

The facts seem to point to suicide; but if he swallowed prussic acid, where's the bottle?

If it was prussic acid, he swallowed it.

He says it is some very powerful variant of prussic acid.

I gathered from what he said that ordinary prussic acid, which is deadly enough, heaven knows, contains only two per cent.

That as she grew older and craved a more nutritious diet, she partook, at first in infinitesimal doses, but in ever increasing quantities, of arsenic, strychnine, opium, and prussic acid?

This was a real sorrow to her, for she loved beauty; it was a still sadder trial that she could no longer feel it right to indulge herself in the least morsel of arsenic; she sighed for strychnia, and pined for prussic acid.

The bitter contain, too, principles which produce two violent poisons,prussic acid and a kind of volatile oil.

They have a kernel-like flavour, and are used in blanc-mange, puddings, custards &c.; but when acted upon by water, they develop prussic acid, and, therefore, but a small number of the leaves should be used at a time.

"Prussic acid or potassium cyanide is what the appearances suggest," he replied.

Moreover, he had assisted Mr. Andrew Thornton, the district medical officer, in making a postmortem examination, and together they had come to the conclusion that death was due to the action of prussic acid, which had caused instantaneous failure of the heart, but how the drug had been administered neither he nor his colleague were at present able to state.

"'Do I understand, then, Dr. Jones, that the deceased died, poisoned with prussic acid?' "'Such is my opinion,' replied the doctor.

a ring, which has a tiny hollow needle capable of holding a sufficient quantity of prussic acid to have killed two persons instead of one.

[poisonous substances, examples] Albany hemp^, arsenious oxide, arsenious acid; bichloride of mercury; carbonic acid, carbonic gas; choke damp, corrosive sublimate, fire damp; hydrocyanic acid, cyanide, Prussic acid, hydrogen cyanide; marsh gas, nux vomica

To keep moth from a haggis, sprinkle well with prussic acid or cayenne pepper.

Small boluses of ice frequently administered will do much good, and doses of dilute prussic acid, from one to four drops in a little water, will generally arrest the vomiting.

It is also narcotic and very poisonous, one drop killing reptiles, as if by an electric shock: in this mode of action it is like prussic acid.

We do not hesitate to eat peaches, though we know they owe much of their peculiar flavor to prussic acid.

"You gave me prussic acid in mistake for quinine this morning," a man told a chemist the other day.

Prussic Acid has been obtained from the leaves of green tea, in so concentrated a state, that one drop killed a dog almost instantaneously.

A wretch kills a boy for the surgeons, by holding his head under water; 'Silly dog!' cries the Morning Herald, 'why did not he clap a sponge dipped in prussic acid to the boy's mouth?'" Here we were interrupted by a slight noise in the next box, which a gentleman had just entered.

We may recall Francis A. Walker's comparison of the economist's task with that of the chemist, which task, in a certain case, was to analyze the contents of a vial of prussic acid, not to give advice as to the use to make of it.

LANDON, LETITIA ELIZABETH, known as L. E. L., authoress, born in Chelsea; a charming woman, who wrote well both in verse and prose; was Mrs. Hemans's successor; having taken prussic acid by mistake had a tragic end (1802-1838).

"Would to Heaven you had taken prussic acid!" "Qu'est ce que c'est?" asked she.