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Sometimes, I heard the doctor venture, "I think it is aconite, but the symptoms are not quite the same. Besides, I don''t see how it could have been administered. There''s no mark on him that might have come from a hypodermic, no wound, not even a scratch. He couldn''t have swallowed it. Suicide is out of the question. But his nose and throat are terribly swollen and inflamed. It''s beyond me."