poisoning with antimony, notice has already been taken of the case of a
man who, after swallowing seventeen grains of tartar-emetic, attempted
to commit suicide by suffocating himself with the fumes of burning
charcoal. He recovered from both attempts, suffered severely from the
usual narcotic effects of carbonic acid gas, but showed scarcely any
symptom of the irritant action of tartar-emetic.[2558]