1 They fetch a doctor, who opens the dead body, and collects from the entrails and stomach a quantity of arsenic in a spoon.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 52. Toxicology. 2 The same evening the grocer or grocers, druggist or druggists, come and say, 'It was I who sold the arsenic to the gentleman;' and rather than not recognize the guilty purchaser, they will recognize twenty.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 52. Toxicology. 3 For three days he watered this cabbage with a distillation of arsenic; on the third, the cabbage began to droop and turn yellow.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 52. Toxicology. 4 Instead of having watered his cabbage with arsenic, he had watered it this time with a solution of salts, having their basis in strychnine, strychnos colubrina, as the learned term it.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 52. Toxicology. 5 Natasha was very ill, having, as Marya Dmitrievna told him in secret, poisoned herself the night after she had been told that Anatole was married, with some arsenic she had stealthily procured.