13 JUNE 1931, Page 13

A Hundred Years Ago

A young woman suffering under this affliction, and who had, about fourteen days ago, taken four hundred and eighty drops of laudanum, and whose life was saved by using Read's improved stomach-pump at the Police-office, was on Thursday again brought in, having swallowed two drachms red precipitate of mercury, which put her life in the most imminent danger. The pump was again used with the best effect in all its bearings, and the young woman is considered out of danger ; she seems determined, however, on self-destruction.