PART VII.--POISONS DERIVED FROM LIVING OR DEAD ANIMAL

SUBSTANCES.

DIVISION I.--POISONS SECRETED BY LIVING ANIMALS.

I. POISONOUS AMPHIBIA.

623. Poisonous Properties of the Skin of the _Salamandra Maculosa_ --Salamandrine, &c., 467 624. Poison from the Toad, 468

II. THE POISON OF THE SCORPION.

625. Various Species of Scorpions--Effects of the Scorpion Poison, 468

III. POISONOUS FISH.

626. Poisonous Fish--Illustrative Cases, 468-470

IV. POISONOUS SPIDERS AND INSECTS.

627. The Bite of the Tarantula--The Bite of the _Latrodectus Malmignatus_, 470 628. Effects of the Bite of the Katipo, 471 629. Ants, &c., 471 630. The Poison of Wasps, Bees, and Hornets, 471 631. Cantharides, 471 632. Cantharidin, 471, 472 633. Pharmaceutical Preparations of Cantharides, 472 634. Fatal Dose, 472 635. Effects on Animals--Radecki’s Experiments--Effects on Man-- Heinrich’s Auto-Experiments, 472, 473 636. General Symptoms Produced by Cantharides, 473, 474 637. _Post-mortem_ Appearances, 474 638. Tests for Cantharidin--Distribution in the Body--Dragendorff’s Process, 475-477

V. SNAKE POISON.

639. Classes of Poisonous Snakes, 477 640. The Poison of the Cobra, 478 641. Fatal Dose of Cobra Poison, 479 642. Effects on Animals, 479 643. Effects on Man, 479, 480 644. Antidotes and Treatment--Halford’s Treatment by Ammonia-- Permanganate of Potash, 480, 481 645. Detection of the Cobra Venom, 482 646. Effects of the Bite of the _Duboia Russellii_, or Russell’s Viper, 483 647. The Poison of the Common Viper--The Venom of Naja Haje (Cleopatra’s Asp), 483, 484

DIVISION II.--PTOMAINES--TOXINES.

648. Definition of a Ptomaine, 485

_Isolation of Ptomaines._

649. Gautier’s Process, 485 650. Brieger’s Process, 485-487 651. Benzoyl Chloride Method, 487, 488 652. The Amines, 488-490 653. Methylamine, 491 654. Dimethylamine, 491 655. Trimethylamine, 491 656. Ethylamine, 491 657. Diethylamine, 491 658. Triethylamine, 491 659. Propylamine, 491 660. Isoamylamine, 492

_Diamines._

661. Rate of Formation of Diamines, 492 662. Ethylidenediamine, 492 663. Neuridine, 493, 494 664. Cadaverine, 494-496 665. Putrescine, 496 666. Metaphenylenediamine, 497 667. Paraphenylenediamine, 497 668. Hexamethylenediamine, 497 669. Diethylenediamine, 497, 498 670. Mydaleine, 498 671. Guanidine, 498, 499 672. Methylguanidine, 499, 500 673. Saprine, 500 674. The Choline Group, 500, 501 675. Neurine, 501 676. Betaine, 501, 502 677. Peptotoxine, 502 678. Pyridine-like Alkaloid from the Cuttle-fish, 502, 503 679. Poisons connected with Tetanus--Tetanine, 503 680. Tetanotoxine, 503, 504 681. Mydatoxine, 504 682. Mytilotoxine, 505 683. Tyrotoxicon, 504, 505 684. Toxines connected with Hog Cholera, 505, 506 685. Other Ptomaines, 506

DIVISION III.--FOOD POISONING.

686. The Welbeck--The Oldham--The Bishop Stortford--The Wolverhampton--The Carlisle, and other Mass Poisonings by changed Food--Statistics of Deaths from Unwholesome Food, 506-508 687. German Sausage Poisoning, 509