In message <000801be0064$3ca61700$c52f883e@default>, Mark O'Connor
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>> My niece who writes for a living has asked me for the
>> name of
>> >> - a poison which induces a mild heart attack when put
>> >>straight into the blood stream i.e. via a drip in a
>> >>hospital
>
>Try Potassium (K+)
>depends on what she means by "heart attack" but fatal dysrhthmia should be
>dramatically tense enough.
>They could be on a drip because of the diarrhoea they have from the slow
>strichnine (?spelling) poisoning :(
How ill is the patient? Hyperkalaemia shows up on an ECG..
Mary
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