Treatise on Poisons In relation to medical jurisprudence, physiology, and the practice of physic

The third order of the irritant class of poisons includes the compounds of the metals. These are of great importance to the medical jurist. They are frequently used for criminal...

Having now investigated the three great classes of poisons in their relations to physiology, practice of physic, and medical jurisprudence, it will be necessary to offer a few o...

The next genus of the metallic poisons includes the preparations of mercury. Some of these are hardly less important than the arsenical compounds. They act with equal energy, pr...

Poisoning with lead is a subject of great consequence in Medical Police, as well as Medical Jurisprudence. Its preparations have been used for the purpose of intentional poisoni...

This subject is purely medico-legal. It comprehends an account of the various kinds of evidence by which the medical jurist is enabled to pronounce whether poisoning in a genera...

To the medical jurist opium is one of the most important of poisons; since there is hardly any other whose effects come more frequently under his cognizance. It is the poison mo...

The poisons, whose energy depends on the presence of the prussic or hydrocyanic acid, are of great interest to the physiologist as well as the medical jurist. Some of them are n...

On attending to the effects which follow the application of a poison to the body, we perceive that they are sometimes confined to the part where it is applied, and at other time...

The class of irritant poisons comprehends all whose sole or predominant action consists in exciting irritation or inflammation. That is, it comprises both those which have a pur...

Of the mineral acids, the most important, because the most common, are _sulphuric_, _hydrochloric_, and _nitric_ acids. They are remarkably similar in their effects on the anima...

The subject of the poisonous gases is one of great importance in relation to medical police, as well as medical jurisprudence. They are objects of interest to the medical jurist...

Poisoning with the salts of copper was not long ago a common accident, in consequence of the metal being much used in the fabrication of vessels for culinary and other domestic...

The term narcotism has been used by different writers with different significations, but is now generally understood to denote the effects of such poisons as bring on a state of...

The fourth order of the irritant poisons contains a great number of genera derived from the vegetable kingdom, and at one time commonly arranged in a class by themselves under t...

Several other metallic compounds produce effects analogous to those of the preparations of arsenic, copper, mercury, and antimony. But they may be passed over shortly; because t...

_Of its Action on Animals, and Symptoms in Man._—Alcohol has been generally believed, since the experiments of Sir B. Brodie,[2511] to act on the brain through the medium of the...

The different sorts of grain are subject to certain diseases, in consequence of which meal or flour made from them is apt to be impregnated with substances more or less injuriou...

_Of Poisoning with Phosphorus_.—The only other mineral acid that deserves mention is the phosphoric. It possesses properties nearly analogous, and hardly inferior to those of th...

The first group of the narcotico-acrids comprehends these whose principal symptom in the early stage of their effects is delirium. All the plants of the group belong to the natu...

Another and much more important group of poisons, that may be arranged in the present order, comprehends animal matter usually harmless or even wholesome, but rendered deleterio...

The last poison of this order is oxalic acid. It is a substance of very great interest; for it is a poison of great energy, and in this country is in common use for committing s...

The fourth genus of the metallic irritants includes the preparations of antimony. Poisoning with antimonial preparations is not common. They are employed extensively in medicine...

The next group of the narcotico-acrids includes a few vegetable poisons that act in a very peculiar manner. They induce violent spasms, exactly like tetanus, and cause death dur...

The natural family _Liliaceæ_, and the allied family, _Melanthaceæ_, contain many species which possess narcotico-acrid properties. Those which are best known in Europe are squi...

The Natural Order _Umbelliferæ_ contains a variety of plants, to which narcotico-acrid properties have been at different times ascribed. But these properties have been satisfact...

Accidents arising from the deadly fungi being mistaken for eatable mushrooms are common on the continent, and especially in France. They are not uncommon, too, in Britain; but t...

These substances have not properly speaking any poisonous quality; but occasion symptoms like those of poisoning, and even sometimes death itself, in consequence of their mechan...

The greater part of the poisons belonging to the Natural Family _Ranunculaceæ_ are acrid only in their action, and have been already taken notice of among the irritants. Two onl...

The second group of the present Order of poisons comprehends most of those derived from the animal kingdom. In action they resemble considerably the vegetable acrids, their most...

The second order of the class of irritants comprehends the alkalis, some of the alkaline salts, and lime. The species which it includes are little allied to one another except i...

The subject of fish-poison is one of the most singular in the whole range of toxicology, and none is at present veiled in so great obscurity. It is well ascertained that some sp...

The third group of the narcotico-acrids resemble strychnia in their action so far, that they occasion in large doses convulsions of the tetanic kind. But they differ considerabl...

_Of Poisoning with Hyoscyamus._—Of the narcotic poisons none bears so close a resemblance to opium in its properties as the _hyoscyamus_ or henbane. Several species are poisonou...

Baryta and its salts, the last genus of the metallic irritants which requires particular notice, are commonly arranged among earthy substances, but on account of their chemical...

The present seems the most convenient place for noticing the general mode of procedure by which the medical jurist may detect cases of imaginary, feigned, and imputed poisoning....

The _nitrate of potass_ [nitre, saltpetre, sal-prunelle], is a dangerous poison. It has been often mistaken for the saline laxatives, especially the sulphate of soda, and has th...

Acetic acid, although in its ordinary state undoubtedly possessed of little activity as a poison, has nevertheless proved in some circumstances deleterious, and capable of occas...

The second group of the order of alkaline poisons, including ammonia with its salts, and the sulphuret of potass, have a double action on the system, analogous to that possessed...

Another entire group of poisons allied to the acrid vegetables in their action, but infinitely more energetic, comprehends the poisons of the venomous serpents. If we were to tr...

After the preliminary observations on General Poisoning, I proceed next to treat of Poisons Individually. The subsequent remarks will be confined in a great measure to the most...

Effects on Man of Nitric Oxide Gas, 615—Chlorine, 616—Ammonia, 617—Hydrochloric Acid, 617—Hydrosulphuric Acid, 617—Carburetted hydrogen, 622—Carbonic Acid, 624—Carbonic Oxide, 6...

The third class of poisons, the narcotico-acrids, includes those which possess a double action, the one local and irritating like that of the irritants, the other remote, and co...

A substance long known to chemists by the name of indigo-bitter, which is procured by the action of nitric acid on indigo, silk, and other azotized substances, and which has bee...

The liver of sulphur, or sulphuret of potass of the pharmacopœias, the last poison of this order to be mentioned, is allied to the ammoniacal salts in action. It is of no great...

The two alkaline chlorides are usually seen in the form of colourless solutions. That of potass is little known in this country; but that of soda is familiar to all in the shape...

Its physical and chemical properties need not be minutely described. It is soluble, though sparingly, in water; and the solution turns the vegetable blues green, restores the pu...