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...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...
John C. Wetherbee, Harvard '87, and Prof. of Law at Boston University, for unknown reasons committed suicide yesterday, by taking poison. - Yale News...
...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...
...certain table at Memorial, the glass pickle-jar has been carefully labelled "Poison...
...light could be introduced into the college library and perhaps into the yard. It may be urged that its use for lighting the yard would bring the quiet retirement of the latter into the rude glare of publicity. The still air of delightful studies would be tainted with this poison. Perhaps this may be true; yet the irrepressible conflict between the electric light and the midnight oil is not to be avoided even at Harvard. The use of this light in the library certainly is not open to this objection...