People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1894 — Poisons and Poisoners. [ARTICLE]

Poisons and Poisoners.

j Sixteen Chinese emperors are report ; ed to have cCed by poison. Nearly forty Turkish sultans and Arabian caliphs died by poison, j Until the English occupation, poison- ! ing was very common in India, i Hemlock poison was a Greek mode of execution. Socrates died thus, j Nero tried to poison himself to e»- j cape execution, but the dose was not sufficient. The Toffania poison was described I in a papal bull as “arsenic distilled in aquafortis.” ! Nearly two hundred Greek generals and statesmen are named who commit- j : ted suicide with poison. Charles 11., of England, is supposed by some historians to have been poisoned by a jealous mistress. | During the middle ages poisoning, especially in Italy, was regarded as an 1 entirely justifiable means of getting i rid of an enemy. —St. Louis GlobeI Democrat.