Note 193 — GENERAL REMARKS ON THE MEDICAL EVIDENCE REQUIRED TO SUBSTANTIATE AN ACCUSATION OF POISONING.
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This appearance is particularly mentioned by Juvenal as an effect of poison.
“Per famam et populum nigros efferre maritos.”—Sat. i, v. 72.
The reader will remember, that we have already stated our opinion, that the poisons of the ancients were of a vegetable origin.