Poisons, Their Effects and Detection

Note 606 — PART VI.—ALKALOIDS AND POISONOUS VEGETABLE PRINCIPLES SEPARATED FOR THE MOST PART BY ALCOHOLIC SOLVENTS. (continued 6)

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In a case in which the author was engaged, a dabbler in drugs, having seduced a young woman, administered to her a dose of ergot which produced a miscarriage, and for this offence he was convicted. The defence raised was that ergot is a common medicine used by physicians in the treatment of amenorrhœa, and other uterine affections. Although in itself this statement was perfectly true, as a defence it was invalidated by the large dose given, the fact of the seduction, and the other circumstances of the case.

[607] Archiv d. Physiol. Norm. u. Pathol., iii. p. 384.

[608] Ueber die Wirkungen des Secale Cornutum, Dissert. Halle, 1873.

[609] Arch. f. pathol. Anat., lvi. p 505.

[610] Lehrbuch der exper. Toxicologie, Berlin, 1874, p. 386.

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