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and coloured.
that should be included in the Schedule I would point out that in the Act to regulate the sale of Arsenic (14 Vict. Cap. 13) such compounds as Orpiment Realgar Arsenical preparations are excluded by section 6 from the operation of the Act. The statute is aimed at
the soluble colourless arsenical salts.
I am
of opinion that all the arsenical compounds mentioned in paragraph 3 should be included in the Schedule to the proposed Bill.
It may perhaps be thought that three poisons is a small number to legislate for. If, however,
13.
It
a reference is made to the records
of the crime of murder by poisoning in Great Britain it will be found
when artificial chemicals such as
Prussic Acid and Tartar Emetic
which can scarcely be regarded as
accessible,
and
accessible to the Chinese, have been
excluded, that poisoners have had recourse to
only
Arsenic Strychnine and Aconitine
in the most remarkable cases
of
murder by poisoning which have
been tried
during the last half
century.
14.
that, with
It is not improbable
an extension of
it
ever
of the
become
knowledge of Chinese Materia Medica and of the uses and misuses of more powerful drugs, necessary to ensure the protection of the public
may
or desirable in order to
to make additions to the number
of Poisons the sale of which should be registered.
15.
I may be permitted to express a hope that when the new
Laboratory is finished every facility will be afforded for completing
the