Chapter 15 THE RUGELEY MYSTERY

Strychnine may very justly be termed a deadly poison. It is one of the active principles extracted from nux vomica, the singular disk-like seed of the Strychnos nux vomica, a tree indigenous to most parts of India, Burmah, Northern Australia, and other countries. Nux vomica was unknown to the ancients, and is said to have been introduced into medic