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Show Poisons Long in Use. Some poisons have been known for ages. Prussic acid, then, called "the poison of the peach," was used by the Egyptians betore the pyramids were built. They were the first to distill the poison from peach, pits. Corrosive' sublimate was one of the favorite poisons of Charles IX. of France. He offered a large prize for any one who would find an antidote for it. A physician physi-cian came to him one day to claim the reward. The king sent for his cook, who had burned the meat that day, and made him take a fatal dose of corrosive cor-rosive sublimate. ' The antidote was administered immediately, hut the cook died, notwithstanding. The king had the doctor taken out and hanged, so. his spirit followed the cook's in' less than a guarter of an hour. |