A STRANGE POISONING.
Simla, September 19. Major Thomson, 1.M.5., tells an extraordinary story in the last number of the Indian Medical Gazette. A Chinese boy was brought into the Pekin hospital terribly injured by a heavy log falling upon him. The doctors, to save his life, cut off his leg. The mother came, and Major Thomson thought she would help to nurse the lad. The patient, however, almost immediately afterwards died, and expert examination showed that his own mother had given him arsenic. Her reason, it is supposed, was to prevent her son from the disgrace of reaching the next world in a maimed condition. This is a very strong point with the Chinese, who always pickle an amputated member to have it buried with them when they eventually die. In this instance, the family being poor and a whole leg difficult to pickle, the simpler course was taken of poisoning the boy, so that he and his leg might go together.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 265, 18 November 1901, Page 3
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