On poisons, in relation to medical jurisprudence and medicine / by Alfred S. Taylor ; edited, with notes and additions, by R. Eglesfeld Griffith.

  • Taylor, Alfred Swaine, 1806-1880.
Date:
1848
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Credit: On poisons, in relation to medical jurisprudence and medicine / by Alfred S. Taylor ; edited, with notes and additions, by R. Eglesfeld Griffith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TABLE OF CONTENTS. MEDICAL EVIDENCE IN CASES OF POISONING. CHAPTER I. Toxicology—Definition of the term Poison—Saline Medicines poisonous in large doses—Fatal effects of Common Salt. Is White Hellebore a Poison ?—Meaning of the words Deadly Poison—Cases—Death from Cold Liquids—Mechanical Irritants —Sponge, Pounded Glass—Action of Boiling Liquids 13 CHAPTER II. Mode in which Poisons operate—Local Action—Remote Action—Period Required for the Absorption and Elimination of Poisons—Viscera in which Poisons are found —Elimination of Arsenic—Detected in the foetus in utero—Rapid Absorption—Ac- tion by Sympathy—Cause of Death—Habit—Idiosyncrasy • . . . .24 CHAPTER III. Classification of Poisons—Special Characters of Irritants, Narcotics, and Narcotico- lrritants—Difference between Corrosive and Irritant Poisons. Varieties of Poisons arranged in Classes 37 CHAPTER IV. Evidence of Poisoning in the Living Subject—Symptoms occur suddenly—Causes of retardation of symptoms—Action of Poisons aggravated by Disease—Symptoms con- nected with Food or Medicine—Sudden Death from Natural Causes mistaken for Poisoning—Several Persons attacked simultaneously—Evidence from the detection of Poison in Food 41 CHAPTER V. Evidence from the Nature of the symptoms. Diseases resembling Irritant Poisoning. Cholera—Gastritis—Enteritis—Gastro-enteritis—Peritonitis—Perforation of the Sto- mach—Strangulated Hernia—Internal Strangulation of the intestines. Diseases re. sembling Narcotic Poisoning—Apoplexy—Sudden Death from natural causes—Post- mortem Examinations—Epilepsy—Tetanus—Convulsions in Infants—Diseases of the Brain and Spinal Marrow—of the Heart—Death from Distension of the Stomach —Ruptures of the Gall-bladder 52