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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Wigmore, H. U. '83, L. S., '87, has just published a very noticeable book on the "Australian Ballot System." Mr. Wigmore was recently awarded the one thousand dollar prize offered by the Medico-Legal Society of New York for the best essay on the subject: "Circumstantial Evidence in Poison Cases...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Law School Notes. | 2/9/1889 | See Source »

...mouth, and are hidden, when the snake is quiet, like a cat's claws. The snake has regular noxillaries like any other carnivore, though it does not masticate its food. The fangs are only used when the beast is angry, and are thrown forward and filled with the poison...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Agassiz Museum. | 10/5/1886 | See Source »

...cases of emergency one should keep cool. This is the first and most important rule. Poisons are of two kinds, acids or alkalis and narcotics. The value of an alkali as an antidote is very small, unless the dose can be immediately administered. Common cooking soda diluted in water is one of the best alkalis which can be used in case of poisoning by an acid. Lemon juice and vinegar are acids which are valuable as antidotes to alkalis. When an emetic is necessary, mustard diluted in water, or luke-warm water in large quantities, should be given. Milk, olive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dr. Porter's Lecture. | 4/28/1886 | See Source »

John C. Wetherbee, Harvard '87, and Prof. of Law at Boston University, for unknown reasons committed suicide yesterday, by taking poison. - Yale News...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 11/21/1885 | See Source »

...once been arrested for stealing books in that city, has been hanging around Cambridge for some time and making a practice of stealing whatever he could find. The unfortunate man was arrested and locked up in Station 1. Shortly afterwards he was found dead in his cell, having taken poison. We give space to this explanation in order to prevent any mistakes in the columns of our contemporaries...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/31/1885 | See Source »

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