| Show POISON EATERS A nation who are great containers at Arten lc shyria a duchy having a population of about a million and a half and lying south of gratz in the mountains portion of the great german confederation is noted for its arsenic eaters according to dr norman kerr in his inebriety and arsenic eaters abound in every city village and neighborhood and in thousands of cases every adult in a family uses it almost the same as sugar heidland He illand tells of a peasant who contracted the poison eating habit by taking one and a half grains of arsenic on the first day three on the second and five and a half on the third this man increased the doses so that by the end of the first year he was regularly eating twelve grains of the drug three times a day without visible harm maclagan mentions the case of a man who daily consumed twenty two and one half grains seven and one half grains before each meal of the poisonous drug in his estimation this was something truly extraordinary Heil lands case is of course much more wonderful but dr kerr reckons both as freaks and gives it as his opinion that the regular poison takers of shyria do not average more than five and one half grains during each twenty four hours the remarkable part of this german oddity is the fact that nearly everybody in the entire province is addicted to the habit like alie clay eaters of the southern states they are known by their sallow waxy looking faces |
