Ptomaines and other animal alkaloids : their detection, separation, and clinical features / by A.C. Farquharson.

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1892
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    CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. ON ALKALOIDS IN GENERAL - - - page i Terminology—Constitution—Substitution compounds—x\mines —Source of alkaloids—-Origin of alkaloids—In living plants —Action of light—In dead vegetable matter—Ergot epidemics—Putrefaction of rye-meal—Ptomopeptones— Alkaloids in animals—In normal structures—-In normal functions—■ Leucomaines — Physiological production of al- kaloids — Brunton on albuminous decomposition—xMurch- ison on typhoid fever—Ptomaines—Selmi's discovery of ptomaines in putrefying tissues and fluids—Brieger upon ptomaines formed in cadavers in successive stages of putrefaction. CHAPTER II. HISTORICAL PAGE i6 Iverner, 1820—Gaspard and Stick, 1822—Panum, 1856—Stick, Weber, Schweninger, Hemmer and Thiersch, 1856-66— Dupr^ and Pence Jones, 1866—Quinodin—Bcrgmann and Schmiedeberg, 1868—Sepsin—Zuelzer and Sonnenschein, 1869—Rorsch, Fasbender, Schwanert, Marquardt, Lieber- mann, Gautier and Hager, 1869-75—Septicin—Selmi, Brouardel, Boutmy, Bechamp, Mosso, Guareschi, Grannetti, Corona, Coppola, Balduino, 1870-80—Arsines—Hausemann upon the poisoners of 17th and i8th centuries—Poisoning from arsenical wall papers—Russian commission on ergot epidemics—Poehl and Anrep upon albuminous fermentations and ptomaines—Conflicting opinions, 1882—Paterno and Spicca on ptomaines in blood and egg—Selmi, alkaloids in disease—Anterobic transformations in normal tissues Gautier's discoveries (1881-86) and explanations—Hankin —Martin—Albumoses—Brieger's analysis of ptomaines, 1885 —Luff's analysis of ptomaines in infectious fevers.