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estricnina
A very toxic, colorless crystalline alkaloid, derived from nux vomica, used as a pesticide.
Only don’t say I didn’t warn you if he burns Green Gables down or puts strychnine in the well—I heard of a case over in New Brunswick where an orphan asylum child did that and the…
[…] strychnine is a fairly rapid drug in its action. The symptoms appear from one to two hours after it has been swallowed.
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