Recueil Periodique de la Societé de Med. de Paris, tom. vi. p. 22. Footnote 228: Nouveaux Elemens de Med. operat. par _J. P. Roux_. Footnote 229: Nouvelles Experiences sur les Contre-Poisons de l’Arsenic. Par _Casimir Renault_. A. Paris. A. 9, pp. 119. Footnote 230: A belief in this mode of poisoning appears to be of very ancient origin. CALPURNIUS BESTIA was said by _Pliny_ (Hist. Nat. Lib. 27. Cap. 2.) to have been particularly skilled in such a process, and to have murdered many of his wives when asleep, by bathing the parts of generation with the juice of Aconite; and Dr. _Gordon Smith_, in his work on Forensic Medicine, relates, on the authority of _Schenckius_, the tragical death of _Ladislas_, or _Lancelot_, surnamed the Victorious and the Liberal, who succeeded to the contested throne of Naples in 1386, and died at the age of thirty-eight in great pain, in consequence of having been poisoned by the daughter of a physician, of whom he was passionately fond, _per concubitum_. Sir _Thomas Brown_, in his _Vulgar Errors_, alludes to an ancient story of an “Indian king that sent unto _Alexander_ a fair woman, _fed with Aconites_, and other poisons, with the intent that she either by converse or _copulation_ might destroy him.” Footnote 231: See page 137. Footnote 232: _Philosophical Transactions._ 1811. Footnote 233: M. _Orfila_ observes that there are many cases of poisoning by arsenious acid introduced into the stomach, in which we are unable to discover the slightest appearance of erosion or inflammation in the alimentary canal; such cases are recorded by _Chaussier_, _Etmuller_, _Marc_, _Sallin_, and _Renault_. Footnote 234: We well remember performing some experiments at Cambridge, many years ago, upon mildew, which as far as they went corroborate this assertion of _Jaegar_, for its propagation was not prevented by arsenic. See also “The effects of Arsenical fumes,” vol. I, p. 332. Footnote 235: See Edinburgh Med. and Surg. Journ. for January 1, 1811. Footnote 236: Elements of Juridical Medicine, p. 76. Footnote 237: Prestwich on Poisons. Footnote 238: Pharmacologia, Edit. 5. vol. ii. p. 89. Footnote 239: Medical Transactions, vol. vi, p. 414. Footnote 240: See Appendix, page 277. Footnote 241: This substance may be said to consist of Charcoal, in a state of extremely minute division, and the sub-carbonate of Potass. It is prepared by deflagrating, in a crucible, two parts of Super-tartrate of Potass with one part of Nitrate of Potass. Footnote 242: