A manual of toxicology, including the consideration of the nature, properties, effects, and means of detection of poisons, more especially in their meico-legal relations / by John J. Reese.

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1874
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    sufficient consideration, and which possess very great im- portance for the toxieologist and the legal physician. The suhject of spectrum-ayialysis has not heen treated of in the present volume. This truly beautiful method of analyt- ical research has developed the most wonderful results both in chemistry and in other departments of science. In point of delicacy, it far transcends the most subtle and refined chemical reactions; and as a corroborative means of evi- dence, it will doubtless prove of great value to the toxieolo- gist. But as it deals, so to speak, with infinitesimals, we do not think that it would be safe, in a case of alleged poi- soning, to rest the evidence solely upon the spectral demon- stration of the supposed toxic agent, to the exclusion of the recognized chemical tests. When an accumulated experience with spectral analysis has rendered the identification of the various poisons absolutely and exclusively certain, we can probably afford to abandon altogether the more tedious and complex methods of chemical research. The author commits his work to the profession with the assurance that he has striven to perform his part carefully and conscientiously, and promises to profit by any friendly criticisms, if his book should have the good fortune to reach another edition. Philadelphia, 1840 Green Street, March, 1874.