"Within three minutes of the time of injection the dizziness and
vertigo had become so great as to make walking seem impossible.
In another minute the lassitude rapidly crept over me, and the
serious disturbance of my breathing made it apparent to me that
walking, waving my arms, anything, was imperative. My lungs felt
glued up, and the muscles of my chest refused to work. Everything
swam before my eyes, and I was soon reduced to walking up and
down the laboratory with halting steps, only preventing falling
on the floor by holding fast to the edge of this table. It seemed
to me that I spent hours gasping for breath. It reminded me of
what I once experienced in the Cave of the Winds of Niagara,
where water is more abundant in the atmosphere than air. My watch
afterward indicated only about twenty minutes of extreme
distress, but that twenty minutes is one never to be forgotten,
and I advise you all, if you ever are so foolish as to try the
experiment, to remain below the five-centigram limit.
"How much was administered to the victims, Doctor Nott, I cannot
say, but it must have been a good deal more than I took. Six
centigrams, which I recovered from these small samples, are only
nine-tenths of a grain. Yet you see what effect it had. I trust
that answers your question.
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