25, "It was about a month since Mrs. Scully sustained a fracture of the jaw at the fist of her husband, Patrick Scully... when a sore throat set in, and Dr. Bird prescribed a gargle composed of 20 grains of tannin and 15 grains of opium, with directions to use as a gargle and spit it out. But Mrs. Scully swallowed the entire mixture, which terminated her unfortunate existence in a short time."
25, "It was about a month since Mrs. Scully sustained a fracture of the jaw at the fist of her husband, Patrick Scully... when a sore throat set in, and Dr. Bird prescribed a gargle composed of 20 grains of tannin and 15 grains of opium, with directions to use as a gargle and spit it out. But Mrs. Scully swallowed the entire mixture, which terminated her unfortunate existence in a short time."
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