1 Well up in belladonna, opium, and poisons generally.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION 2 The forcible administration of poison is by no means a new thing in criminal annals.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION 3 I described Drebber's death to him, and I gave him the same choice of the poisoned pills.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN ... 4 Of the two pills in that box one was of the most deadly poison, and the other was entirely harmless.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS 5 The more I thought of it the more extraordinary did my companion's hypothesis, that the man had been poisoned, appear.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR 6 It would have been the same in any case, for Providence would never have allowed his guilty hand to pick out anything but the poison.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN ... 7 Having sniffed the dead man's lips I detected a slightly sour smell, and I came to the conclusion that he had had poison forced upon him.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION 8 I was a fairly good dispenser, so I worked this alkaloid into small, soluble pills, and each pill I put in a box with a similar pill made without the poison.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN ... 9 One day the professor was lecturing on poisions, and he showed his students some alkaloid, as he called it, which he had extracted from some South American arrow poison, and which was so powerful that the least grain meant instant death.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN ...