DESPERATE ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE.

Evening Star, Issue 10931, 13 May 1899, Page 2 (Supplement)

DESPERATE A TTEMPT AT SUICIDE.

A remarkable attempt to commit suicide was recently made by a Vienna music-teacher. The ‘ Leader ’ correspondent says that she first swallowed ten doses of morphia, which failed to produce any marked effect. Next she tried oxalate, which also failed to -“U potassic acid equally unsuccessful. She then had recourse to overdoses of strychnine but still remained alive and conscious. A final attempt with prussic acid also failed to rob her of her life. Abandoning poison, the mdy got out of bed, where she had been lying to await the working of the poisons, and fetched a heavy rolling-pin from the kitchen. She belabored her temples and the back of her head with this, still without the desired results. Finally she took her pocket-knife and cut open veins in her left hand and arm. She began her attempts at suicide at five in the morning, and at three in the afternoon, when discovered, she was still alive and conscious, although faint from loss of blood and from the effect of the various poisons. She is sure of recovery. The doctors declare that a constitution able to withstand so many desperate attacks has never before come under their notice.

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