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Dr. J. C. Smith family household and medical book, 1847

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The following plan, if carried out by all retail druggists will render poisoning by arsenic (except in the case of suicide) alarmed impossible: If 30 oz of arsenic be mixed with 6 oz of nitrate of potack 3 oz of sulphate of iron and 3 oz of powdered nut galls, we have at once a detector and a preventer. For if a small quantity of this compound is mixed with water gruel, dough, +c it almost immediately turns the liquid or paste to a black or dark purple colour, showing at once that the food is unfit for use. There is no objection to the use of arsenic thus prepared for the destruction of vermin or for agricultural purposes: and the preparation of the ingredients may be reduced if required with the same effect.
For Dyarhea
Half a teaspoonful of carbonate of soda (30 grams) dissolved in a tablespoonful of Brandy - or 10 to 20 drops of Laudanum in a Tablespoonful of Castor oil

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The following plan, if carried out by all retail druggists will render poisoning by arsenic (except in the case of suicide) alarmed impossible: If 30 oz of arsenic be mixed with 6 oz of nitrate of potack 3 oz of sulphate of iron and 3 oz of powdered nut galls, we have at once a detector and a preventer. For if a small quantity of this compound is mixed with water gruel, dough, +c it almost immediately turns the liquid or paste to a black or dark purple colour, showing at once that the food is unfit for use. There is no objection to the use of arsenic thus prepared for the destruction of vermin or for agricultural purposes: and the preparation of the ingredients may be reduced if required with the same effect. For Dyarhea Half a teaspoonful of carbonate of soda (30 grams) dissolved in a tablespoonful of Brandy - or 10 to 20 drops of Laudanum in a Tablespoonful of Castor oil