Syllabus of the university course of lectures on medical jurisprudence / by Robert Christison.

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1826
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    occasional poisonous properties; real cause unknown ; idiosyncrasy is the cause in some people. Poisonous oysters. Section XXI.—Of Poisonous Serpents.—Effects of the poison of the viper; cobra di capello; rattlesnake; poisonous insects. Section XXII.—0/ the Poisonous effect of Putrid and Diseased Animal Matters when used as food, or applied to the skin, or to wounds, or injected into the veins, or when their effluvia are breathed. Effects of habit on the operation of these poisons. Symptoms in man. FIFTH ORDER OF THE IRRITANTS.—Mechanical Irritants. Section XXIII.—Effects of fragments of metals ; stones ; kernels of fruits ; pounded glass ; the last is not a poison ; boiling water ; melted lead. Of Narcotic Poisons. Introductory observations on their symptoms and mor- bid appearances, and on the diseases which produce similar effects; of their symptoms; morbid appearances generally trifling. Of the diseases which cause similar symptoms ; apoplexy; inflammation of the cerebral tissue; worms in the intestines ; epilepsy ; hysteria; concussion of the brain. Method of determining, by comparison of the symptoms and morbid appearances, whether death has taken place by one of these diseases, or by narcotic poison. Is it always or ever possible to distinguish the two causes by this kind of evidence alone ? Several observations on the principles to which the narcotic poisons owe their properties. Section XXIV.—Of Poisoning with Opium.—On the various modes in which it has been and may be secretly taken. Physical pi'operties. Morphia, its alkaline pro- perties. Mode of preparing it; physical and chemical properties ; its right to the name of alkali considered. Narcotine, another crystalline principle in - opium; its