“Wow, it seems a lot like a strychnine poisoning.” She told me that strychnine is known as “the poison of Hollywood films. Because it’s that poison that does what you see in the movies: where somebody’s eyes are rolling back in their heads and they can’t control their body, and they’re having seizures—these, like, very dramatic contortions where their body’s twisting this way and that. That’s what this poison does.”
