Gold cyanide

The young doctor was disappointed: he had never had the opportunity to study the effects of gold cyanide on a cadaver..

..He [Dr. Juvenal Urbino] said:"There is bound to be someone driven mad by love who will give you the chance one of these days." And only after he said it did he realize that among the countless suicides he could remember, this was the first with cyanide that had not been caused by the sufferings of love. Then something changed in the tone of his voice.

"And when you do find one, observe with care," he said to the intern: "they almost always have crystals in their heart."


-Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez.