People v. Frost
New York Court of General Session of the Peace
The defendant was indicted for manslaughter in causing the . death of one Tiberius Gr. French. The evidence showed that the defendant was a physician of what was called the Thompsonian school, and that the death of French was caused by improper medical treatment, and particularly in the immoderate use of lobelia (known as Indian tobacco), and of the steam bath.
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The defendant was indicted for manslaughter in causing the . death of one Tiberius Gr. French. The evidence showed that the defendant was a physician of what was called the Thompsonian school, and that the death of French was caused by improper medical treatment, and particularly in the immoderate use of lobelia (known as Indian tobacco), and of the steam bath. The jury found the defendant guilty of manslaughter in the fourth degree, under that provision of the statute that declares that when death is caused “ by the act, procurement or culpable negligence of another,” it shall be deemed…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Recorder.
The defendant in this case was indicted for manslaughter in the first degree, in feloniously causing the death of one Tiberius' Gr. French, on the 10th day of October, 1857, by administering to him deleterious and poisonous vegetable herbs and other things and decoctions, drank therefrom, *54and for ignorantly and unskillfully administering the • same. One of those vegetable herbs, and perhaps the most powerful and pernicious, was upon the trial denominated before the court .and jury to be lobelia, or, in common language, Indian tobacco. It is unnecessary here to go through the…
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