I don't doubt what you have to add to the gathered info, but there are some aspects I would have to spend some time on to say I believe it as facts and not opinion or hearsay. Keep in mind that the K.G.C. became a few broken arrows so to speak... in 1865. There is more than one story that is fact and true. It is possible to have two separate trails of facts cross the same path and travel down it like an interstate until they exit either turning to B.S. or traveling on another road of discovery. It is how I will spend the rest of my life I suppose. Thanks for the post, I have spent my time moving forward on a time line way more than backwards up it. I have many unanswered at this time about the beginning.
L.C.
L.C.
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" just before AP had Gen John A. Quitman poisoned at President James Buchanan's inauguration dinner. PIke did this so he wouldn't have to fight to take over as Head of the Scottish Rite Supreme Council. Quitman was next in line for the position and Pike was a newcomer to the Scottish Rite. so to remove him from challenging Pike, Quitman got National Hotel Disease and later died in Mississippi. The poison was in the sugar, Yankees drank tea with sugar cubes and southerners drank coffee using sugar from a bowl which contained arsenic. "
Clinical effects of arsenic toxicity depend on the chronicity (eg, acute, chronic) and type of poisoning (eg, arsenic, trivalent arsenic, arsine gas). Frequently, patients exposed to arsenic have a garlic smell to their breath and tissue fluids.
Acute severe arsenic poisoning manifests with the following signs and symptoms:
Tachycardia, hypotension, and even shock
Altered mental status, delirium, coma, seizures (acute encephalopathy)
Trivalent arsenic poisoning manifests with the following signs and symptoms:
Acute exposure: Cholera-like gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms of vomiting (often bloody) and severe diarrhea (may be rice-watery, often bloody); these patients will experience acute distress, dehydration (often), and hypovolemic shock
Chronic toxicity: Insidious; may manifest as a classical dermatitis (hyperkeratosis with a classical "dew drops on a dusty road" appearance) or peripheral neuropathy (usually a painful, symmetrical paresthesia with stocking-glove distribution); commonly, hepatic and renal damage
Fingernails: Whitish lines (Mees lines) that look like those from traumatic injuries
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Hotel_disease What the press had to say.
What I believe is the truth.
http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/kgc/367624-radical-republican-poisoning.html#post3503762
L.C.
