Vintage Medicine: Chocolate coated strychnine

This brings to mind a quote attributed to George R. R. Martin: "Love is poison. A sweet poison, yes, but it will kill you all the same."

 

Poison

Chocolate coated

100 tablets No. 1369

Strychnine sulfate

1/30 grain

(0.0022 GM.)

DOSE - 1 tablet

2104 977378

Lilly

Eli Lilly & Company

Indianapolis, U. S. A.

 

Notes

This bottle is displayed in the Rothschild's apothecary museum in Syracuse, NY's Museum of Science and Technology.

According to the Wikipedia page the entire bottle theoretically contains less than the LD/50 dose for a small child.

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