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Show Tholi.o Is Pound Iu T Careful investigations show that theme is a deadly poison when administered to animals. Seven and a half grains will kill a cat in a few moments. Twelve grains havo been known to produce serious results in human beings; twenty grains would be almost or quite fatal. It is not so fatal in small doses as arsenic : or strychnine, and most people are habituated to its use in much the same way that the opium eater takes his dead- ly drug with safety. J. H. Kellogg, 1 $L P. |