POISON FOR RASPUTIN
THE FAILURE TO ACT LONDON, April 30 Dr. Lesche, Professor of Internal Medicine at Berlin University, has published a text book of toxicology. He states in the book that the failure to poison the Russian monk Rasputin with potassium cyanide was due to alcoholic gastritis, from which Rasputin suffered. The complaint prevented the formation of acid in Rasputin's stomach, on which cyanide normally acts.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21794, 8 May 1934, Page 9
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