‘‘Suicide while temporarily insane,” ) was the verdict at the inonest at Croydon on John Blake, an inmate of Croydon Infirmary, who died after .cat-tin" his throat. The evidence showed that the dread of a cold bath preyed on his mind. The juice of the green nineapple is accredited in Java, the Philippines, and throughout the Par East generally with beina Wood-noison of a most deadly nature. It is said to be the substance with which the Malays noLson their kreeses and daggers, and also to he the “fingernail” poison formcly in use among aborigine Javanese women almost universallv. “ These women cultivated a nail on each band to a long, sharp point, tfhß the least scratch from one of these was certain death.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4301, 9 March 1901, Page 4 (Supplement)
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