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strychnine

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strychnine

Bitter-tasting, poisonous alkaloid. It is a poison that causes violent muscular spasms, and is usually obtained by powdering the seeds of plants of the genus Strychnos (for example S. nux vomica). Curare is a related drug.
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We have with great success made a practice of not leaving arsenic and strychnine, and typhoid and tuberculosis germs lying around for our children to be destroyed by.
John Barleycorn by London, Jack View in context
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 whole family died in fearful agonies.
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I spent it in ransacking the library until I discovered a medical book which gave a description of strychnine poisoning.
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