A STRANGE POISONING.
SIMLA, Oct. 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 Pekin hospital terribly injured by a Jieavy log falling upon him. The doctors, to save his life, cut off his leg. Tbe moiher came, and Major Thomson thought- the would help to nurse the lad. Bhe patient, however, almost immediately alterwaids died, and expert examinatim show'd his own mother had given him arsenic. Her reason, it is supposed, was to prevcrt her son from the disgrace of reaching the rext world in a maimed condition. Tliiu is n very strong point with the Chinese, who always pickle an amputated menilier •« have it Duried with them vbeu tVy e«tEtually die. In this instance, the family being poor, ■♦ .H n wln.le le* difficult to pick 1 ?. 1? e simi lor course was taken of poisoning the boy, in that he and his leg might go together.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 9302, 15 November 1901, Page 1
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162A STRANGE POISONING. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 9302, 15 November 1901, Page 1
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