Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1859 — Poisoned Whisky. [ARTICLE]

Poisoned Whisky.

The Crawfordsville Journal reports a case of poisoning by whisky that ought to be as effective as a dozen temperance lectures. It says that a vouug man named Lewis, of that county, drank whisky on the 30th of July which b rnt his. thro.-.t and stomah and made him vomit—not units al occtirrances with more liquors than whisky. The next day he drank again, and in the afternoon, an hour or so after swallowing the last glass, he was seized with convulsions which lasted six hours, and contorted his body and limbs terribly. His toes were drawn in upon the sol s of his feet, his fingers in on his palms, and his head and feet back toward each other till they met and bent his body into a circle. His jaws were locked fast and could not be opened at all, but he retained his consciousness. For ten days, at. intervals of one to five hours, these spasms have returned, but. happily with entire unconsciousness in the patient since the first ones. Such symptoms would appear to indicate rather more strychnine than usual in the whisky of Montgomery county and will explain the intense hatred of the citizens to the liquor traffic.— State Journal.