Word: phial
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Dates: during 1887-1887
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...door leading from his study to his bedroom was closed, and when opened a quantity of coal gas rushed out which had been escaping from a gas jet evidently purposely turned on. On the desk in his study was found a medicine chest, apparently new, from which the phial of nuxvomica was missing. This was immediately found in the center of the room entirely emptied of its contents. There was also on the desk an encyclopedia opened at the letter H, and on the top of the page was written "I think I must be crazy." These were the only...