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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    68. A legal investigation may be required ei- ther in the case of the living or the dead body. 69. When called during life in a case where poison has been taken, the primary object of course is to save the patient and remove suffer- ing—but still to bear in mind that a judicial in- quiry may be necessary—remarks—ascertain what the individual last swallowed if possible- get possession of the vessel in which it has been contained and of the remains, if any—if he have vomited, secure the rejected matter—observe the symptoms—a corroborative proof, as to the particular deleterious article taken, is the success- ful exhibition of an established antidote. The substance in which the poison has been mingled, or the matter vomited, to be submitted to such tests as are at hand, to assist us in deciding on the proper practice for recovery—to give pro- per evidence in a Court of Justice, however, the mass to be reserved for deliberate and attentive experiment—remarks. In cases of suspected poi- soning important to inquire into the habits of life, idiosyncrasies, &c. whether the individual be known to have been before similarly affected—- whether particular articles of food, generally con- sidered wholesome, have usually disagreed—of what his last meal consisted—whether any error or noxious agent have occurred in the culinary department. These injunctions palpably neces- sary where the person is still alive and the