A general system of toxicology, or, a treatise on poisons, found in the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms, considered in their relations with physiology, pathology, and medical jurisprudence / abridged and partly translated from the French of M.P. Orfila, M.D.P. by Joseph G. Nancrede.

  • Orfila, Matthieu Joseph Bonaventure, 1787-1853.
Date:
Dec. 1, 1817
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    should be acquainted with the different counter-poisons, and beside that a multitude of re-agents have been extol- led, which do not in any manner deserve the name of An- tidote, we shall begin by resolving the following problem. Is there any substance which possesses the properties re- quired to act as an antidote ? The numberless experiments which have been made up- on living animals, with the design of throwing light upon this question, will be here reported. It will be made to appear that it is useless, and often dangerous, to have re- course to a very considerable number of those things which have been extolled ; and others will be substituted in their room, the employment of which does not present any inconvenience, and may be followed with success; which we shall demonstrate by some facts peculiar to ourselves. After having thus fixed the respective value of the sub- stances considered as counter-poisons, the course which the Physician ought to pursue in order to relieve the symp- toms developed by the poison will be pointed out, in ma- king the different means understood, which he may em- ploy according to the nature and violence of the symp- toms. The second section will comprise all that relates to poisoning generally considered. This section will contain two chapters. In the first, the means proper for ascertaining the exis- tence of poison in a person while living, will be treated of. The first article of this chapter will be set apart for the purpose of making known those symptoms, which distin- guish acute poisoning from several other diseases; such as the cholera morbus, the melana, &c. : of explaining thQ variations of those symptoms, according as vomiting may,