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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Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PROFESSOR OF THE INSTITUTES AND PRACTICE OF PHYSIO AND OF CLINICAL PRACTICE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA; PRESIDENT OF THE PHILADELPHIA MEDICAL SOCIETY, &C. &C. SIR, I BEG leave to inscribe the present volume to you who have so justly appreciated the value of Orfila's elaborate and extensive Work on Poisons. Encouraged by you, I have ventured to publish a condensed and cheap- er edition, in which 1 have endeavoured to comprise what- ever the original contained that appeared interesting to the practitioner. It is not the friendship with which you have honoured me, that designated the medium I have chosen, through which to present it to our profession. It is offered as an acknowledgment of your solicitude for the advance- ment of medical science, the honour of the profession, and the reputation of its members, whose success, I have learnt by many proofs, is a more immediate object of your ambition, than the fame of a Boerhaave, or the celebrity of a Cullen. I am, Sir, With great respect, Your most humble and Obedient servant, JOSEPH G. NANCREDE. Philadelphia) November, 1817.