Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 302, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1910 — Gems as Poison Antidotes. [ARTICLE]

Gems as Poison Antidotes.

Poison was the terror of the middle ages; It Is natural, therefore, to find many remedies among gems—the jacinth, the sapphire, the diamond, the cornelian, the ruby, the agate, the toads tone, the bexoar stone were . all used as antidotes to poison.