Volume 1

A general system of toxicology : or, a treatise on poisons, found in the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms, considered in their relations with physiology, pathology, and medical jurisprudence / by M.P. [sic] Orfila.

  • Orfila, Matthieu Joseph Bonaventure, 1787-1853.
Date:
1816-17
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A general system of toxicology : or, a treatise on poisons, found in the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms, considered in their relations with physiology, pathology, and medical jurisprudence / by M.P. [sic] Orfila. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

    11/554
    ADVER TISE ME NT, THE reputation which the work before m has acquired,^ both in France and in this countryj renders any recommenda- tion from the Editor superfluous. The importance of the •subject, the total want of any work of the kind, and the able manner in which the author has acquitted himself in it, will not fail to render this Treatise on Toxicology, highly grati- fying to the Medical World. M. Orfila has undoubtedly Tendered a great service to Science, by opening the way to the study of this Js^^fu,, e„v<.ne \j>f 2Mcdicai Jurisprudence, hitherto little understood, and rarely cultivated, notwith- standing its importance to the Practitioners of Medicine. It is to be hoped that his example will be followed up by some of our own Countrymen, possessed of talent and leisure, sufficient for the undertaking. By frequently repeated ex- periments, there is no doubt but this Science may be brought to some degree of perfection. The second part of this Volume is in a state of forward- nesSf and the remaining parts, which are daily expected, will be translated as soon as they can be received from France.