Show the peasants eat arsenic as the chinese eat opium they eat it for two specific purposes to ac acquire rd e plumpness and freshness of complexion complexion and to improve their wind ind sj sa as to enable them to climb long stee steep mountains oun 1 t ains without of breathing 11 and 31 strange to hear these specific purposes are attained the young poison eaters are remarkable for blooming complexions completions complex ions and full rounded healthy appearances the peasant after dissolving a slight particle of arsenic in his mouth ascends heights with facility which he could not otherwise do without the great est eat difficulty of breathing |