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Show i er imagination Was Fatal. During the summer of 1888 an inquest "jas held on a young English woman who, it was supposed, had poisoned herself. her-self. The examination showed no poison, but the stomach contained a powder, the general character of which corresponded corre-sponded with a certain insect powder. The manufacturers claim that this is non-poisonous, and tho chemist, who analyzed an-alyzed the contents of the girl's stomach, concurred in tho same opinion. It was tried on cats, rabbitfl and sheep, neither of which were affected by it. In the absence of evidence of other causes to account for death the only assumption was that the young woman had taken the insect powder believing it to be poisonous, and that her imagination had been wrought np to the point where death was the natural result. St. Louis Republic. |