Part 2 — INDEX
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Abano, Petri de, 52
Aconite, 70
— how gathered, 72, 73
Act passed making poisoning high treason, 186
Agra poisoning case, the, 372
Agrippina, 35
Ainos of Japan, 22
Albany, Duke of, poisoned, 142
Alexander, Prince, mysterious death of, 108
Alexander the Great, 37
Alexander VI, Pope, death of, 133, 134
Alexipharmica, 42
Alfonso, Duke of Bisceglie, 129
Algaroth’s powder, 98
“All Hallow E’en,” superstitions connected with, 214
Alraun, 67
American poison mysteries, 329
Andrew, Sir Euseby, strange case of, 171
Antidotes to poison, 41, 42
Antimony, 98
— cups, 99
— in human beings, 99
— preservative properties of, 342
Aqua Toffana, composition of, 125
Aquetta di Perugia, 126
Armstrong case, the, 385
Arrow poisons, 16
Arsenic, history of, 88
— against plague, 90
— as an amulet, 90
— contamination, risk of, 222
— eaters, 94
— — investigation of, 94
— for cosmetic purposes, 93
— in sweets, 94
— in wall-papers, carpets, and fabrics, 93
— use of in India, 89
— white, 89
Assay cups, 59
Atholl, Earl of, poisoned, 143
Bacon, Lord, on poisoning, 186
Bacteria, criminal poisoning with, 230
Banes, 16
Baroda, Gaekwar of, charged with poisoning, 108
Bartlett, Adelaide, trial of, 303
Bezoar stones, 60, 61, 62
Bhang, 248
Black case, the, 381
Blessis and his death mirrors, 199
Boiling alive, penalty for poisoners, 188
Borgia, Cesare, 129
— family, 128
— Lucrezia, 129
— poison, composition of, 140, 141
Borri, Giuseppe Francesco, 178, 179
Botulism, 219
Boughton, Sir Theodosius, poisoned, 265
Bouillon, Duchesse de, 160
Boyle, Robert, 97
Bravo case, the, 282
Brinvilliers, Marquise de, life and career of, 150
— — arrest and trial of, 156
Brittannicus poisoned, 35
Bull’s blood, 32
408Bushmen, Australian, arrow poisons, 17
— African, arrow poisons, 17, 18
Calabar bean, 24
Canaby case, 318
Cantarella, La, 140
Carlyle and “Grey Powder,” 246
Carr, Robert, 104
Catharine de’ Medici, 146
Celts, poison used by the, 17
Cesare Borgia, 129
— — crimes of, 130
— — death of, 138
— — prepares a poison, 131, 132
Chambre Ardente, La, 149, 159, 160
Chapman, or Klosowski, case of, 337
Charms against poisons, 53
Chatillian, Cardinal, poisoned, 106
Chinese, poisons used by the, 38, 39
Chloral hydrate habit, the, 246
Chlorodyne habit, the, 242
Chloroform taking, 240, 241
Chlorpicrin, 225
Christison, 95
Cicuta, 31
Clark, Lieut., case of, 372
Cluny, Prior of, 145
Cocaine habit, the, 242
— and morphine, wholesale smuggling of, 245
— smuggling, 243
— — cunning methods employed in, 243
— traffic, 245
Condorcet, suicide of, 205
Conium maculatum, see Cicuta
Cornelia and Serpi, 34
Corneto, Cardinal de, 132
Cornish poison mystery, A, 381
Cotta, Dr., 171
Council of Ten, 121
Cream, Neill, 314
— — his stethoscope and medicine case, 316
Crippen case, the, 350
D’Albret, Jeanne, 145
Dalkeith coffee poison case, the, 369
D’Annunzio and his “Pharmic Liberator,” 126
D’Astrées, Gabrielle, death of, 146
Devereux case, the, 347
Di-chlorethyl sulphide, 225
Dioscorides, poisons mentioned by, 32, 33
Di-phosgene, 225
Donellan, Capt., executed, 271
Draconites, 62
Dri, a Romany poison, 87
Dumas, his description of poisons, 255, 256
Dunbar, Earl of, poisoned, 144
Egyptians, poisons used by the, 28
Electrum, 62
Elizabeth, Queen, attempt to poison, 116
— — and Amy Robsart, 165
English surgeons experiment on criminals, 111
Essex, Earl of, poisoned, 106
Ether drinking, 242
Exali, 148
Fallopius, tests on criminals, 110
Fenning, Elizabeth, case of, 271
Fiction, poisons in, 254
Francis II, 145
Fresenius’ work on arsenic, 95
Ganja, 248, 249
Gas helmets, 224
— mustard, 225
— shells, 224
Geber, see Jábir ibn Háyyan Gherian ware, 60
Gilbert, Jeanne, case of, 321
Ginseng root, 215
409Girard, Henri, case of, 322
Glaser, 148
Gold leaf, suicide by, 38
Goldsmith and “James’ Powder,” 247
Greeks, poisons used by the, 28, 29
Gula, Babylonian poison goddess, 26
Hashish, 248
— antiquity of, 249
— effects of, 250, 251
— smoking, in India, 248
Hebrew poisons, 28
Hellebore, black, 74
Hemlock, 31, 74
Henbane, 75
Henrietta Anne of England, death of, 146, 147
Henry VIII apprehensive of poison, 103
Hermes Trismegistos, 28
Hewitt case, the, 280
Hindus, poison used by, 37
Hofrichter, Lieut., charged with poisoning, 193, 194
Horsford case, 291, 325
Hyoscine hydrobromide, 357
Hyoscyamus, 75
Ilford murder case, 401
Indians, North American, poisons used by, 21, 22
— Californian, poisons used by, 22
— Jivaro, of the Amazon, poisons used by, 21
— South American, poisons used by, 21, 22
Inoculation with tuberculosis bacilli, 227, 228
Irish poison mysteries, 345
Italian school of poisoners, 120
Jábir ibn Háyyan (Geber), 89
Japanese, poisons used by, 38, 39
Jean Douglas, Lady Glamis, charged and condemned, 142
John, King, and Maud FitzWalter, 101
John of Ragusa, a professional poisoner, 121
Kermes Mineral, 98
Kwang Su, Emperor, death of, 38
Lafarge, Madame, case of, 273
Lambeth poison mysteries, 314
Lamson, Dr., case of, 298
Laudanum, 81
La Vigoureux, 160
La Voisin, 149, 160
Lawford Hall, mystery of, 265
Leicester, Earl of, 105
“Leicester’s Cold,” 107
Leopold I, Emperor of Austria, attempt to poison, 178
Le Sage, 160
Locusta, 35
Louis XVIII, attempt to poison, 162
Love charms, 215
— philtres, 211
— — danger of, 212
— — native, 215
— — plants used in, 214
— — poison in, 215
— — strange ingredients composing, 213
Lucrezia Borgia, 129, 130
— — death of, 140
Luxembourg, Marshal de, 161
Macchiavelli, death of, 117
— his magic potion, 117
Malay poisons, 19
Mandrake, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68
Mantua, Marquis of, letters, 135
Mark Antony, 36
Marsh’s test for arsenic, 95
Maybrick case, the, 308
—, Mrs., her statement in court, 310
Mayerne, Sir Theodore Turquet de, 97
410Medicine-men, 16, 24
Melampus root, 74
Mercury, history of, 96, 97
— as a charm, 98
— first used in treatment of syphilis, 97
Mescal buttons, 82
Methods employed by secret poisoners, 198
Molineux, Roland B., case of, 329
Moray, Earl of, poisoned, 142
Morphine taking, 239
Moulton, Lord, on the Maybrick case, 313
Muavi, 23
Nicander of Colophon, 42
— — — poisonous substances mentioned by, 43
Nigger Caeser’s cure for poison, 48
Opium, 76, 77
— eating, 79, 238, 239
— introduction into India of, 78
— smoking, 80
— use of in India, 80, 81
Orange, Prince of, attempt to poison, 205
Ordeal poisons, 23
Orfila, 95
— and the Lafarge case, 277
Orkney, Earl of, poisoned, 144
Orpiment, 88
Ovambos, arrow poison used by the, 18
Overbury, Sir Thomas, poisoning of, 103
Oxford, Vice-Chancellor of, 195
Palmer, execution of, 291
Parysatis, Queen, 36
Pearson and Black, case of, 345
Persians, poisons used by, 36
Petrograd case, 230
Phocion, 29
Phosgene, 224
Pigmies, Central Africa, arrow poison of the, 18
Pimlico mystery, the, 303
Pocula emetica, 99
Poison, definition of, 15
— duel between Court physicians, 36
— from a ceiling, 346
— gas, 223
— — attempted murder with, 229
— habits, 238
— in a wooden leg, 208
— in beer, 216, 217
— in chocolates, 222
— in cocoa, 221
— in foods, 219
— in glass, 222
— in honey, 220
— in the chalice, 114
— laws in ancient times, 40
— — in Italy, 40
— mysteries, in France, 318
— plots, 186
— — against Austrian officers, 193
— — against cavalry horses, 228
— — against Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, 186
— — against Ministers of State, 189
— — against the Chief Commissioner of Metropolitan Police, 195
— — in Lima, 189
— — in Malta, 188
— rings, 203, 204, 207
— — a cardinal’s, 207
— — Cesare Borgia’s, 206
— — stories of, 207
— symptoms and signs of, 35
Poisoned bed, 209
— boots, 199
— candles, 182, 200
— chocolates given to ’bus girls, 228
— coins, 146
— court plaster, 227
411— cup, 199
— flowers, 209
— lavender, 208
— robe, 201
— shirts, 200
— — test by Dr. Nass, 200
— slipper, 201
— soup-powder dropped by enemy aircraft, 226
— sweets dropped by enemy aircraft, 225, 226, 227
— torch, 208
— wine, 198
Poisoners of Rome, 122
Poisoning, dread of wholesale, 186
Poisonous grass as a defence, 87
— boot-blacking, 203
Poisons used by ancient and primitive races, 15
— concealed in flowers, 194
— dropped by aircraft, 225, 226
— in mythology, 27
— in warfare, 223
— preventive methods against, 49
— tried on criminals, 109
— used in France in seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, 162
Pontæus, a quack, challenges the physicians of Oxford, 111
Porta, Baptiste, on poisons, 122
Poudre de succession, 161
Pritchard, Dr., case of, 293
Raspail and the Lafarge case, 276
Ravenna, Cardinal-Archbishop of, 110
Reinsch’s test for arsenic, 95
Rhinoceros horn, 58
Robsart, Amy, mystery of the death of, 164
— — burial of, 166
— — inquest on, 167
Roman Poison Laws, 40
Rome, mysterious deaths by poison in, 34
Royal and historic poisoners, 101
Rugeley mystery, the, 287
Sainte-Croix, 150, 151
— — casket found after death of, 154
— — contents and letter in casket, 154
— — death of, 153
— — poisons used by, 155
Sassy bark, 23
Scotiney, Sir Walter de, 102
Scottish poison mysteries, 142
Scythians, poisons used by the, 17
Seddon case, the, 362
Seneca, 29
Sentence for poisoning, revision after twenty-five years of a, 91
Sheffield, Lord, 107
Signs of death from poison, 41
Sirani, Elisabetta, death of, 118
Slow poisons, 15
Slow and time poisons, 113
— — — — origin of the tradition about, 113
Smith, Madeline, case of, 279
Socrates, death of, 29
Soissons, Comtesse de, 160
Somali, poisons used by the, 18
Somerset, Countess of, 103
Southwark poison mystery, the, 337
Spara, Hieronyma and her crimes, 115, 126
Spiders, poison lore of, 87
Stas’ process, 95
State poison of the Greeks, 29
Stevenson, Dr., proves the presence of aconitine, 299
Suicides by poison, would-be, 92, 93
Superstitions connected with poisonous plants, 53
Sussex, Earl of, 107
Tariff for poisoning, 121
Tartar emetic, 99
Terra Sigillata, 49
— — how it was tested, 50
412Theophrastus, poisons mentioned by, 33, 34
Theriaca, 42, 43, 44
— ceremony of compounding, 46
— Galen’s test of, 45
— importation to London of, 47
— Mithridates’, 44
— Philonium, 45
— of Andromachus, 45
— of Bologna, 46
— of Cairo, 47
— of Damocrates, 46
— of London, 47
— of Montpellier, 48
— of Venice, 46
— Zopyros’, 44
Thoth, 28
Throgmorton, Sir Nicholas, 106
Toads, poison lore of, 84
— poisonous, principles extractedfrom, 84
Toadstone rings, 54
Toadstones, 54
Toffana, 122
Trial of venoms in 1432, 110
Trigg, Mr., and Miss Loeser, the mysterious case of, 332
Unicorn’s horn, 55, 56, 57
— — Coronation Chair of, 58
— — cups made of, 56
Upas-tree, 20
Visconti, Primi, 159
Westminster, Abbot of, poisoned, 102
Wheeldon trial, 190, 191
Willcox, Sir William H., on the Seddon case, 368
— — — — Black case, 384
Witch-doctors, 24
Witches’ hallucinations, 63
Women poisoners, 198
Wondreton’s commission to poison, 120
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