Thursday, 11 June 2015

Bread and arsenic

Some time ago a farmer at Chilmark in Wilts, having laid some pieces of bread and butter in the pantry, with arsenic spread upon them for the destruction of rats, poisoned two of his men, who coming in from labour, eat the bread and butter, and expired in great agonies. - A necessary caution to prevent such practices.

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