Bedside Jug

A mansion in Balham, London, Wednesday, 1876. On Tuesday night at 9:45 pm, the solicitor Ambrose Tilney, 30, flung open his bedroom door shouting for hot water and collapsed on the hallway rug.

The doctors stayed with him all night. Ambrose swore to the end that he had taken nothing but laudanumlaudanum Tincture of opium in alcohol, sold as a painkiller in the 19th century and highly addictive. for his toothache. He died at dawn, and the doctors speak of antimonyantimony A metal-like element whose compounds are toxic and cause violent vomiting; used in old medicines..

He had been married for four months to Beatrice, a rich widow, and was already talking about cutting the household expenses.

Three people were near that room on Tuesday. One of them knows what was in his glass.

A Victorian bedroom by lamplight: an unmade bed, a vial of laudanumlaudanum Tincture of opium in alcohol, sold as a painkiller in the 19th century and highly addictive. and an upside-down jug.