573 in the case of the mother. The stomach, we learn, presented a general condition of pink congestion, with three spots of the characteristic "plum-coloured" extravasation, each about the size of a sixpenny piece, near the lesser curvature, at its posterior aspect. After distilling over the contents, which were only about an ounce and a half of a syrupy fluid, of treacly colour, the affirmative tests for hydrocyanic acid, with silver, sulphide of ammonium and the " iron test," were applied,

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... the characteristic reactions obtained. Hence it may be