The Yangtze valley and beyond : an account of journeys in China, chiefly in the province of Sze Chuan and among the Man-tze of the Somo territory (1899)
Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy), 1831-1904 · London : J. Murray · leaf 321
AN OPIUM SUICIDE 297 in finding that she had a back to her neck ! I was told that it was a quarrel with her mother-in-law which had driven her to suicide. I had a bad quarter of an hour before she became conscious, for, had she died, the opium would have been acquitted, and the blame would have… … ENTRANCE TO A MARKET-PLACE. and tore and scratched everybody near her. I did not think that her husband was interested in her recovery. An idea, though possibly only a local one, is, that when a person commits suicide by opium, the spirit is refused entrance at the gate of Hades, because it has not…
China -- Description and travel · Yangtze River Valley (China)
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