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marym625

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1. I had to look up "Strychnine"

Reply to niyad (Original post)

Wed Jan 28, 2015, 12:35 PM

Jan 2015

Strychnine, when inhaled, swallowed or absorbed through eyes or mouth, causes apoisoning which results in muscularconvulsions and eventually death throughasphyxia

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strychnine

What a sick thing.

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I had to look up "Strychnine" marym625 Jan 2015 #1

and to think that that was only ONE case. niyad Jan 2015 #2

Yeah. I wonder how many people were killed with that marym625 Jan 2015 #3