....The necessary antidotes had been administered in time and she was now out of danger, though still so weak that it was out of the question to move her to the country, and so the countess had been sent for. (Maud translation)
I became curious about this because arsenic is a very serious poison, but, having read books like the Aubrey/Maturin series, I know that there wasn't much known about it and its action at the time. /2