Syllabus of the lectures on medical jurisprudence and on the treatment of poisoning & suspended animation : delivered in the University of Virginia / by Professor Dunglison.

  • Dunglison, Robley, 1798-1869.
Date:
1827
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    the mineral, vegetable or animal kingdom, and according to their action on the living frame as Corrosive, Astringent, Narcotic, fyc. the most convenient. 58. The majority of deaths by poison occasion- ed by those of the mineral kingdom—chemistry affords sure means of detecting many of these when really present—remarks. 59. OrfiUCs and Fodere's classification recom- mended, viz: Corrosive, or Eschar otic—astrin- gents-acrid narcotic or stupifying narcotic-acrid —and septic or putrefying ~ remarks. 60. Corrosive or Escharotic poisons destroy the texture of the parts to which they are ap- plied. 61. Symptoms—violent pain and sense of heat in the stomach and intestines- constriction of the mouth and fauces —frequent vomiting, often of blood—bloody diarrhoea — some times hiccup and tenesmus—pulse quick, small and hard, at length imperceptible the body becomes very cold and covered with cold moisture, though these symp- toms vary, there being sometimes intense heat with unquenchable thirst generally great anxi- ety and oppression at the prsecordia - fetor of the breath—priapism induced by some poisons of this class countenance becomes altered and con- vulsed and death succeeds -the internal senses generally remaining unimpaired until nearly the last—the rapidity of the fatal event depen-