On poisons in relation to medical jurisprudence and medicine / by Alfred Swaine Taylor.

Date:
1875
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Credit: On poisons in relation to medical jurisprudence and medicine / by Alfred Swaine Taylor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    CONTENTS. CHAPTER 1. Toxicology—meaning of the term Poison—Medicines and Poisons—large and small doses—Medical definition—Legal definition—Administration of poison—Noxious and destructive things . . . pages 1—H CHAPTER 2. Absorption of poisons—Channels of entrance and exit—Entrance into and diffusion by the blood—Action by injection into the blood or wounds— Absorption by the unbroken skin—Death from contact with diseased .skin—Hypodermic injections—Poisoning by hypodermic injections PAGES 5—14 CHAPTER 3. Entrance of poisons into the body—Absorption by mucous membrane— Action through the air-passages and lungs—through the mucous mem- brane of the stomach and intestines—Action through the conjunctiva— rate of Absorption—Fatal dose , . . . pages 14—19 CHAPTER 4. Detection of poisons in the blood by their chemical and physical properties —By spectral analysis—Local action of poisons—Elimination and deposi- tion of absorbed poisons—Channels of exit—Elimination of arsenic and other poisons by the virine pages 19—26 CHAPTER 6. Absorption, elimination, and deposition of poisons—illustrated by cases of arsenical poisoning—appearance of poison in the Urine—Period for complete elimination of absorbed poison—Medico-legal questions—date of administration—detection in the liver and other organs—alleged presence in the hair—elimination of antimony . . pages 26—31 CHAPTER 6. Absorption and elimination of Acid and Alkaline poisons—of liquid and volatile poisons—Rapid diffusion of prussic acid—lilimination of morphia —Strychnia, its deposition in the tissues—experiments on animals— observations on man—Its entire removal from the body—proofs of absorption of other alkaloids pages 31—39