Treatise on Poisons by Sir Robert Christison

36. Quoted by Marx, die Lehre von den Giften, I. ii. 163.

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Footnote 869: Die Wirkung der Arzneimittel und Gifte, iii. 86. Footnote 870: Zeller, in Reil’s Archiv. viii. 233. Footnote 871: Nouvelle Bibliothèque Médicale, 1828, iv. 17 and 18. Footnote 872: See the last Edition of this work, p. 366. Footnote 873: See my Dispensatory, 1842, p. 507. Footnote 874: Reil’s Archiv., viii. 228. Footnote 875: Journal der Praktischen Heilkunde, lx. 115. Footnote 876: Toxicologie 3te Auflage, 539. Footnote 877: Ibidem, 433. Footnote 878: Journal de Chimie Médicale, 1842, p. 428. Footnote 879: Buchner’s Repertorium für die Pharmacie, lxxvi. 249. Footnote 880: Journal de Chimie Médicale, 1843, p. 137. Footnote 881: Hodgson’s Trial, Edin. Med. and Surg. Journal, xxii. 439, also a case by Mr. Blacklock, Ibid. xxxvi. 92. Footnote 882: Case by Ollivier in Archives Gén. de Méd. ix. 100; also one by Mr. Valentine, Edin. Med. and Surg. Journal, xiv. 471. Footnote 883: Case by Fontenelle, Arch. Gén. de Méd. v. 345; also Hodgson’s Trial. Footnote 884: Hodgson’s Trial; also Orfila, Tox. Gén. i. 263: and Mr. Valentine’s 5th case, the only survivor. Footnote 885: Hodgson’s Trial; also Mr. Buchanan’s case in Lond. Med. Repos. xix. 374. Footnote 886: Mr. Valentine’s Cases, Edin. Med. and Surg. Journal, xiv. 470. Footnote 887: Mr. Anderson’s case in Edin. Med. and Surg. Journal, xiv. 474. Footnote 888: Essay on Mineral Poisons, p. 52. Footnote 889: Dumonceau in Journ. de Med. lxix. 36; Orfila, Tox. Gén. i. 264; and Blacklock’s case. Footnote 890: Edin. Med. and Surg. Journal, xiv. 468. Footnote 891: Ibid. xliv. 26. Footnote 892: xli. 204. Footnote 893: London Medical Gazette, viii. 616. Footnote 894: Edin. Med. and Surg. Journal, xxxvi. 92. Footnote 895: Archives Gén. de Méd. ix. 99. Footnote 896: Orfila, Tox. Gén. i. 265. Footnote 897: Mr. Valentine’s cases. Footnote 898: Ollivier’s case, and Fontenelle’s. Footnote 899: Case by Devergie in Arch. Gén. de Méd. ix. 463. Footnote 900: Houlston, in London Med. Journal, vi. 271. Footnote 901: Arch. Gén. de Méd. ix. 463. Footnote 902: Toxicol. Gén. i. 263. Footnote 903: Journal de Chimie Médicale, 1842, p. 294. Footnote 904: Edin. Med. and Surg. Journal, xiv. 468. Footnote 905: Mr. Valentine’s 4th case. Footnote 906: London Medical Gazette, viii. 616. Footnote 907: London Medical Gazette, vii. 329. Footnote 908: Ibidem, 1842–43, i. 556. Footnote 909: Mr. Valentine’s case 1st. Footnote 910: Case in Med. and Phys. Journal, xli. Footnote 911: Case by Dr. Anderson in Edin. Med. and Surg. Journal, vii. 437. Footnote 912: Beddoes’ Contributions to Physical and Medical Knowledge, 1799, p. 231. Footnote 913: London Medical Gazette, 1842–43, i. 941. Footnote 914: Edinburgh Med. and Surg. Journal, li. 114. Footnote 915: Ibidem, xiv. 474. Footnote 916: Manual of Medical Jurisprudence, 162. Footnote 917: Lond. Med. and Phys. Journal, xli. Footnote 918: Toxic. Générale, i. 282, from Degneri Historia Med. de Dysent. Bilios. Contag. 250. Footnote 919: Lond. Med. and Phys. Journal, xli. 204. Footnote 920: Reports of Medical Cases, ii. 337. Footnote 921: Lancet, 1838–39, i. 215. Footnote 922: M. Colson in Arch. Gén. de Méd. xii. 84. Footnote 923: Dr. Ramsbotham in Lond. Med. Gazette, i. 775. Footnote 924: Dr. Crampton, Trans. Dublin College of Physicians, iv. 91. Footnote 925: See page 335. Footnote 926: Rust’s Magazin, xxv. 578. Footnote 927: Journal der Praktischen Heilkunde, ix, ii. 201. Footnote 928: Lond. Med. and Phys. Journal, xxvi. 452. Footnote 929: Ibid. xxvii. 275. Footnote 930: Trans. Lond. Coll. Phys. i. 34. Footnote 931: Revue Medicale, 1828, iv. 76. Footnote 932: Ibidem, 1829, i. 467, from Osservatore Medico di Napoli, Febb. 1829. Footnote 933: Dr. Tott, in Rust’s Magazin für die gesammte Heilkunde, xxxv. 50. Footnote 934: Journ. de Chem. Med. ix. 197. Footnote 935: London Medical Gazette, 1837–38, ii. 578. Footnote 936: De Ptyalismo Febrili. Diss. Inaug. Lipsiæ, in Halleri Disput. de Morb. Histor. i. 469. Footnote 937: See Evidence of Mr. Bromfield on the Trial of Miss Butterfield for the murder of Mr. Scawen, p. 40. Footnote 938: London Medical Gazette, 1839–40, ii. 875. Footnote 939: Lancet, 1843–44, i. 60. Footnote 940: London Medical Gazette, 1841–42, i. 338. Footnote 941: Swédiaur on Venereal Diseases, ii. 251. Footnote 942: Colson in Arch. Gén. de Méd. xii. 99. Footnote 943: Flora Suecica. Footnote 944: On the Venereal Disease, ii. 143. Footnote 945: Colson in Arch. Gén. de Méd. xii. 99. Footnote 946: The exact time is not mentioned. Footnote 947: Trial by Gurney and Blanchard, pp. 39, 47. Footnote 948: Principles of Forensic Medicine, 2d Ed. 118. Footnote 949: Trans. of the Prov. Med. and Surg. Association, ii. 262. Footnote 950: Mead’s Medical Works, p. 202. Footnote 951: Male’s Juridical Medicine, 89. Footnote 952: Archives Gén. de Méd. xl. 254. Footnote 953: Ibid. xii. 100. Footnote 954: Trans. Dublin Coll. Physicians, iii. 236. Footnote 955: Appendix to his Traité de la Colique Metallique, p. 275. Footnote 956: Edin. Med. and Surg. Journal, viii. 376, and ix. 180. Footnote 957: Reports of Medical Cases, ii. 495. Footnote 958: Fernelius, de Lues Ven. Curat. c. vii. Footnote 959: London Med. and Phys. Journal, lxvii. 394. Footnote 960: Arch. Gén. de Méd. xiv. 109. Footnote 961: Mém. de l’Acad. des Sciences, 1719, p. 474. Footnote 962: Edin. Med. and Surg. Journal, viii. 195. Footnote 963: London Medical Repository, xvi. 458. Footnote 964: Mémoires de l’Acad. de Chirurgie, iv. 154. Footnote 965: Wibmer. Die Wirkung der Arzneimittel und Gifte, iii. 46. Footnote 966: Diss. Inaug. de Effectibus Liquidorum in vias aëriferas applicatorum, p. 35. Footnote 967: Hufeland’s Journal, xlii. Footnote 968: Mr. Hill in Edin. Med. Ess. iv. 38. Footnote 969: Corvisart’s Journal, xxv. 209. Footnote 970: London Journal of Science, x 354. Footnote 971: Edin. Med. and Surg. Journal, vi. 513, and London Medical and Physical Journal, xxvi. 29. Footnote 972: Horn’s Archiv für Medizinische Erfahrung, 1831, 519. Footnote 973: Edin. Med. and Surg. Journal, vii. 437. Footnote 974: Ibidem, xliv. 26. Footnote 975: Medizinisch-Chirurgische Zeitung, 1833, v. 330. Footnote 976: Repertorium für die öffentl. und gerichtl. Arzneiwissenschaft, i. 223. Footnote 977: Annalen der Gesetz-gebung, iii. 55. Footnote 978: Journ. de Physiologie, i. Footnote 979: Annals of Philos. xiv. 241, 321. Footnote 980: See my Dispensatory, 1842, p. 500. Footnote 981: Acta Naturæ Curiosorum, Dec. ii. Ann. vi. Obs. 231. Footnote 982: Journal de Médecine, l. 3. Footnote 983: Dr. Sigmond in Lancet, 1837–38, i. 228, from Turner’s Treatise on Diseases of the Skin. Footnote 984: Ibidem, p. 227. Footnote 985: I. 240. Footnote 986: Opera Omnia, p. 729. Footnote 987: Arch. Gén. de Médecine, xix. 330. Footnote 988: Sur l’usage et les Abus des Caustiques. Paris, 1817. Quoted by Wibmer Smith found two drachms kill a dog when swallowed, and half a drachm proved fatal in two dogs when applied to a wound. Footnote 989: Lancet, 1836–37, i. 401. Footnote 990: London Medical Gazette, xiii. 117. Footnote 991: Cours de Médecine-Légale. Footnote 992: Handbuch der Toxicologie, 1838, p. 250. Footnote 993: Wibmer. Die Wirkung der Arzneimittel und Gifte, iii. 66. Footnote 994: Ibidem, iii. 647. Footnote 995: Arch. Gén. ix. 102. Footnote 996: Thibert, Anatomie Pathologique, extracted in the American Journal. of Med. Science, April, 1842, p. 490. Footnote 997: De Medicamentis insecuris et infidis, in Oper. Omn. vi. 314. Footnote 998: Miscellanea Curiosa, 1692. Dec. ii. Ann. x. p. 34. Footnote 999: Die Wirkung der Arzneimittel und Gifte, iii. 72. Footnote 1000: Johnson on Tropical Climates, pp. 45, 151, 267.—Annesley on the Diseases of India.—Musgrave on Mercury, in Edin. Med. and Surg. Journ. xxviii. 42. Footnote 1001: Dr. Fletcher. American Journal of Med. and Phys. Sciences, vii. 561. Footnote 1002: Miscellanea Curiosa, l. c. Footnote 1003: Die Wirkung der Arzneimittel und Gifte, iii. 72. Footnote 1004: London Medical Gazette, 1837–38, ii. 610. Footnote 1005: M. Mialhe in Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Juin, 1842. Footnote 1006: Manual of Medical Jurisprudence, p. 178. Footnote 1007: For the documents in this trial I am indebted to my late colleague Dr. Duncan, Junior, who was concerned in it. Footnote 1008: Toxicol. Gén. i. 310. Footnote 1009: Recherches sur un Nouvel Antidote contre le sublimé corrosif, p. 34. Footnote 1010: Toxicol. Gén. p. 311. Footnote 1011: Taddei, Recherches, &c. p. 92. Footnote 1012: Edin. Med. and Surg. Journal, xxii. 438. Footnote 1013: As in Devergie’s Case (Arch. Gén. ix 468), in which they were as big as peas. Footnote 1014: Ibidem. Footnote 1015: Devergie in Arch. Gén. ix 468. Footnote 1016: Sir B. Brodie in Philos. Trans. 1812. Footnote 1017: Edin. Med. and Surg. Journ., xiv. 472, 473. Footnote 1018: London Medical Gazette, viii. 618. Footnote 1019: Recherches sur un Nouvel Antidote, &c. p. 61. Footnote 1020: Archives Gén. de Méd. ix. 470. Footnote 1021: Journal de Chim. Médicale, viii. 268. Footnote 1022: Orfila, Traité de Médecine Légale, iii. 134. Footnote 1023: Edin. Med. and Surg. Journal, li. 115. Footnote 1024: The reader may apply this statement to the trial of Mr. Angus, p. 118. Footnote 1025: Edin. Med. and Surg. Journal, vii. 151. Footnote 1026: Augustin’s Repertorium, B. i. H. ii. 11. Footnote 1027: xli. 207. Footnote 1028: Journal de Médecine, l. iii. 15, or Recueil Périodique de la Soc. de Méd. vii. 343. Footnote 1029: Revue Medicale, 1830, ii. Footnote 1030: Toxicologie Gén. i. 313. Footnote 1031: Corvisart’s Journal de Médecine, xxxviii. 77. Footnote 1032: Dissert. Inaug. p. 36. Footnote 1033: See my Dispensatory, p. 518. Dr. Wright’s Thesis on certain points connected with the action of mercury and its salts has not yet been published. Footnote 1034: London Med. Repository, xix. 408. Footnote 1035: Trans. of Dublin Coll. of Phys. iii. 310. Footnote 1036: Journal de Chim. Méd. Mars, 1825. Footnote 1037: Recherches sur un Nouvel Antidote, &c. p. 26. Footnote 1038: Giornale di Fisica, 1826, vi. 170, and Buchner’s Repertorium für die Pharmacie ii. 229. Footnote 1039: London Medico-Chirurgical Review, v. 612. Footnote 1040: Buchner’s Repertorium für die Pharmacie, iv. 51. Footnote 1041: Annales d’Hygiène Publique, xxviii. 427. Footnote 1042: Journal de Chimie Médicale, 1843, p. 10. Footnote 1043: Dr. Hort. American Journal of Med. Science, vi. 540. Footnote 1044: Edin. Med. and Surg. Journal, xxix. 218. Footnote 1045: Lond. Med. Repos. N. S. vi. 368. Footnote 1046: Lond. Med. Gazette, 1836–37, ii. 144. Footnote 1047: Burnett on Criminal Law, 547. Footnote 1048: Journal de Chimie Médicale, 1842, p. 771. Footnote 1049: Dégrange, London Medical Gazette, 1842–43, i. 495. Footnote 1050: Falconer on the Poison of Copper, p. 23. Footnote 1051: Expériences sur l’Empoisonnement par l’oxyde de Cuivre. Diss. Inaug. Paris, 1802. Quoted in Orfila’s Toxicol. i. 502. Footnote 1052: Sur l’usage prétendu dangereux de la vaisselle de cuivre dans nos cuisines. Histoire de l’Acad. Roy. des Sciences de Berlin, 1756, p. 12. Footnote 1053: Toxicol. Gén. 1843, i. 612. Footnote 1054: Beck’s Medical Jurisprudence, 460. Footnote 1055: Falconer, &c. pp. 48, 98, 110. Footnote 1056: Sur l’usage, &c. p. 12. Footnote 1057: Falconer, &c. p. 63. Footnote 1058: Histoire de l’Acad. de Berlin, 1756, p. 16. Footnote 1059: Falconer, &c. p. 79. Footnote 1060: Annales de Chimie, lvii. 79, 81. Footnote 1061: Practisches Handb. für Physiker, iii. 312, Case 49. Footnote 1062: Fabricii Hildani Opera omnia. Genevæ, 1682. De Dysenteria, p. 669. Footnote 1063: Orfila, Toxicol. Générale, i. 507. Footnote 1064: Trans. London College of Physicians, iii. 80. Footnote 1065: On the Poison of Copper, 86. Footnote 1066: On the Poison of Copper, 88; also Paris and Fonblanque’s Medical Jurisprudence, ii. 289. Footnote 1067: Annales de Chimie, lvii. 80. Footnote 1068: On the Poison of Copper, p. 18. Footnote 1069: Annales, &c. p. 80. Footnote 1070: Medical Observations and Inquiries, ii. 11. Footnote 1071: On the Poison of Copper, 106. Footnote 1072: Proust, Annales de Chimie, lvii. 83. Footnote 1073: Geschichte der Mineralischen Gifte, p. 77. Footnote 1074: Lond. Med. Journal, ii. 411, from Journ. de Méd. Footnote 1075: Archives Gén. de Méd. xix. 471. Footnote 1076: Annales d’Hygiène Publ. et de Méd. Légale, iii. 342. Footnote 1077: Archives Gén. de Méd. xxi. 145. Footnote 1078: Buchner’s Repertorium für die Pharmacie, xxxiii. 236. Footnote 1079: Pignant in Journ. de Chim. Méd. viii. 339. Footnote 1080: Toxicologie Gén. 1826, i. 510. Footnote 1081: Schweigger’s Journal der Chemie, xvi. 340, 436. Footnote 1082: Journal de Pharmacie, xvi. 505. Footnote 1083: Bulletins de la Société Roy. de Méd. 1838–39, p. 113. Footnote 1084: Journal de Chimie Médicale, 1840, p. 475. Footnote 1085: Ibid. viii. 442, 573. Footnote 1086: L’Experience, Avril 27, 1843. Footnote 1087: Journal de Chimie Méd. ix. 147. Footnote 1088: Ibidem, 1840, p. 28. Footnote 1089: Toxicologie Gén. 1843, i. 637. Footnote 1090: Orfila. Toxic. Gén. i. 511. Footnote 1091: ibid. Toxic. i. 513. Footnote 1092: Buchner’s Repertorium für die Pharmacie, lxxvi. 352. Footnote 1093: Toxicol. Générale, i. 515. Footnote 1094: Edinburgh Med. and Surg. Journal. lvi. 110. Footnote 1095: Utrum per viventium adhuc anim. membr. et arter. pariet. mat. ponderab. permeare queant, 13. Footnote 1096: Ueber die Wirkung des Kupfers auf den thierischen Organismus, in Buchner’s Repertorium für die Pharmacie, xxxii. 337, 1829. Footnote 1097: Ibidem, lxxii. 56. Footnote 1098: Journal de Chimie Médicale, 1840, p. 475. Footnote 1099: Observations sur les effets des vapeurs méphitiques, 437. Footnote 1100: Orfila, Toxicol. Gén. i. 500. Footnote 1101: Annales d’Hygiène Publique, 1840, xxiv. 100. Footnote 1102: Arch. Gén. de Médecine, xix. 329. Footnote 1103: _Ut supra_, 103, 106. Footnote 1104: Corvisart’s Journal de Médecine, xviii. 54. Footnote 1105: _Ut supra_, 108, 110, 113. Footnote 1106: _Ut supra_, xviii. 56. Footnote 1107: Journal de Chimie Médicale, 1841, p. 309. Footnote 1108: Toxicol. Gén. i. 519. Footnote 1109: Aufsätze und Beobacht. aus der gericht. Arneiwiss. viii. 85. Footnote 1110: Practisches Handbuch für Physiker, iii. 308. Footnote 1111: Journ. de Chimie Médicale, v. 413. Footnote 1112: Die Wirkung der Arzneimittel und Gifte, ii. 253. Footnote 1113: Trans. London Coll. Phys. iii. 88. Footnote 1114: Quoted by Dr. Thomson in Lancet, 1836–37, ii. 640. Footnote 1115: Traité des Maladies des Artizans, p. 78. Footnote 1116: Traité de la Colique Métallique, p. 103. Footnote 1117: London Medical Gazette, 1838–39, i. 195, 697. Footnote 1118: Gangrene could not have taken place in thirteen hours. The appearance must have been black extravasation, which has often been mistaken for gangrene. See page 267. Footnote 1119: Portal sur les effets des vapeurs méphitiques, 436, 439. Footnote 1120: Orfila, Tox. Gén. i. 530. Footnote 1121: Dict. des Sciences Médicales, vii. 564. Footnote 1122: Orfila, Tox. Gén. i. 534. Footnote 1123: Orfila, Tox. Gén. i. 535. Footnote 1124: Ibidem, i. 539. Footnote 1125: Ibidem, i. 540. Footnote 1126: Ibidem, i. 541. Footnote 1127: Journal de Pharmacie, xviii. 570. Footnote 1128: London Medico-Chirurgical Review, v. 611. Footnote 1129: Taylor’s Medical Jurisprudence, 1844, p. 206. Footnote 1130: Orfila, Toxicol. Générale, i. 466. Footnote 1131: Edinburgh Med. and Surg. Journal, xxviii. 71. Footnote 1132: Ibid, xxviii. 71. Footnote 1133: Journal de Chimie Médicale, 1840. Footnote 1134: Memoire sur l’Emétique, or Orfila, Toxicol. Gén. i. 469. Footnote 1135: De Effectibus liquidorum, &c. p. 32. Footnote 1136: Diss. Inaug. de Venenis Mineral. Edin. 1813. P. 23. Footnote 1137: Diction. de Méd. et de Chir. Pratiques, Art. Antimoine, iii. 69. Footnote 1138: Journal de Chim. Médicale, 1840, p. 291, and Orfila, Toxicologie Générale, 1843, i. 475. Footnote 1139: Annales d’Hygiène Publique, xxix. 427. Footnote 1140: Buchner’s Repertorium für die Pharmacie, lxxviii. 107, from Comptes Rendus de l’Institut. Footnote 1141: Orfila, Toxicol, i. 74. Footnote 1142: Ibid. i. 478. Footnote 1143: Bulletins des Sciences Médicales, xvii. 243. Footnote 1144: Taylor’s Medical Jurisprudence, 205, from Casper’s Wochenschrift. Footnote 1145: Edin. Med. and Surg. Journal, xxii. 227. Footnote 1146: Laennec, Auscultation Médiate, i. 493. Footnote 1147: On the Nature and Treatment of Cholera, p. 24. Footnote 1148: Mr. Greenwood, Lancet, 1835–36, ii. 142. Footnote 1149: Renauld in Journ. Univ. des Sciences Médicales, xvii. 120. Footnote 1150: Mem. of Lond. Med. Soc. ii. 386. Footnote 1151: Ibidem, v. 81. Footnote 1152: Corvisart’s Journ. de Med. xxvi. 221. Footnote 1153: Mem. of Lond. Med. Soc. iv. 79. Footnote 1154: Journal de Chimie Médicale, iv. Footnote 1155: Lond. Med. Repos, xvi. 357. Footnote 1156: London Medical Gazette, xii. 496. Footnote 1157: Lohmerer in Journal de Chimie Médicale, 1840, p. 629. Footnote 1158: Orfila, Toxicol. Générale, i. 480. Footnote 1159: De Medicamentis Venenorum vim habentibus. Opera Omnia, T. 1. p. ii. 213. Footnote 1160: Diss. Inaug. de Effectibus liquidorum, &c. p. 32. Footnote 1161: Archives Générales de Médecine, xlvii. 364. Footnote 1162: Orfila, Toxicol. Générale, i. 475. Footnote 1163: Bulletins des Sciences Médicales, vi. 259. Footnote 1164: Bulletins de l’Acad. Roy. de Médecine, 1840, vi. 140. Footnote 1165: Manual of Medical Jurisprudence, 1844, p. 209. Footnote 1166: Toxicologie Générale, i. 555. Footnote 1167: Orfila, Journal de Chimie Médicale, 1842, p. 346. Footnote 1168: Horn’s Archiv für Medizinische Erfahrung, 1823, ii. 415. Footnote 1169: Toxicol. Gén. 1843, ii. 10. Footnote 1170: Recherches Chimiques sur l’Etain, Paris, 1781. Footnote 1171: See Wibmer, die Wirkung der Arzneimittel und Gifte, v. 168. Footnote 1172: Toxicologie Gén. 1843, ii. 5. Footnote 1173: Medical Times, Oct. 9, 1841. Footnote 1174: Edinburgh Med. and Surg. Journal, lvi. 119. Footnote 1175: Toxicol. Gén. i. 581. Footnote 1176: De Effect. Liquid. ad vias aëriferas applic. Tübingæ, 1816, p. 33. Footnote 1177: London Medico-Chirurgical Transactions, vii. 2. Journal der Practischen Heilkunde, Juli, 1824. Footnote 1178: Wibmer. Die Wirkung, &c. i. 212, from Rust und Casper’s Kritische Repertorium, xix. 454. Footnote 1179: Journal de Chimie Médicale, 1842, p. 351. Footnote 1180: Ibid. 1843, p. 348. Footnote 1181: Annales d’Hygiène Publique, xxix. 430. Footnote 1182: Journal de Chimie Médicale, 1839, p. 434. Footnote 1183: Orfila, Toxicol. Générale, i. 593. Footnote 1184: Magendie, Formulaire pour les nouveaux Médicamens. Footnote 1185: Toxicol. 241. Footnote 1186: Medicina Rationalis Syst. ii. c. 8. Sect. 12. Footnote 1187: Toxicol. Gén. i. 501. Footnote 1188: Journal de Chimie Médicale, 1842, p. 344. Footnote 1189: Bulletins des Sciences Méd. xx. 188. From the Heidelberg Klinische Annalen, also Wibmer, Die Wirkung der Arzneimittel und Gifte, i. 416. Footnote 1190: Versuche über die Wirkungen des Baryts, Strontians, Chrom, &c. auf den thierischen Organismus. 1824. Footnote 1191: Buchner’s Repertorium für die Pharmacie, lxix. 387. Footnote 1192: London Medical Gazette, 1843–44, ii. Footnote 1193: Ed. Med. and Surg. Journ. xxvi. 133. Footnote 1194: Journal de Chimie Médicale, 1842, p, 353. Footnote 1195: Toxicologie Gén. i. 569. Footnote 1196: Edinburgh Med. and Surg. Journal, lvi. 110. Footnote 1197: Journal de Chimie Médicale, 1842, p. 353. Footnote 1198: Médecine Légale, iv. 165. Footnote 1199: Guy’s Hospital Reports, vi. 17. Footnote 1200: Orfila, Tox. i. 573. Footnote 1201: Journal Gén. de Médecine, lvi. 22. Footnote 1202: Materialien für die Staatsarzneikunde, i. 122. Footnote 1203: Horn’s Archiv, 1824, ii. 259. Footnote 1204: Buchner’s Repertorium für die Pharmacie, xxvii. 317, and xxxiii. 104. Footnote 1205: Henke’s Zeitschrift für die Staatsarzneikunde, xxiii. 164. Footnote 1206: Magazin für die gesammte Heilkunde, xxi. 563. Footnote 1207: Annales de Chimie, lxxxvi. 59. Footnote 1208: Orfila’s Toxicologie, i. 567, from the Procès-verbal of the public meeting of the Society of Liége in 1813. Footnote 1209: See Dr. Babington’s Paper in Guy’s Hospital Reports, vi. 16. Footnote 1210: Journal de Chimie Médicale, 1839, p. 389, from Casper’s Wochenschrift. Footnote 1211: Aufsätze und Beob. ii. 12. Footnote 1212: Versuche über die Wirkung des Baryts, &c. Footnote 1213: Toxicologie Gén. 1843, ii. 44. Footnote 1214: Magazin für die gesammte Heilkunde, xxi. 247. Footnote 1215: I shall take an early opportunity, with the permission of Messrs Dewar, of publishing some of the details of these two cases, which are most interesting in various respects. Footnote 1216: Versuche über die Wirkung des Baryts, &c. Heidelberg, 1824. Footnote 1217: Horn’s Archiv für Medizinische Erfahrung, 1830, ii. Footnote 1218: British Annals of Medicine, i. 41. Footnote 1219: Ibidem, 132. Footnote 1220: Schubarth, Journal der Praktischen Heilkunde, lii. 101. Footnote 1221: See a paper by myself in Edinburgh Royal Society Trans., 1842, xv. 276, 274. Footnote 1222: Buchner’s Repertorium für die Pharmacie, xxxviii. 125. Footnote 1223: Mem. de l’Acad. des Sc. 1787, 281, sur les vins lithargyriés. Footnote 1224: Vitruv. de Architectura, L. viii. c. 7, Quot modis ducantur aquæ. Editio Dun. Barbari, 1567, pp. 262, 265. Footnote 1225: De Medic. secundum locos, lvii. Footnote 1226: Researches into the Properties of Spring Waters, 1803, p. 193. Footnote 1227: Annales de Chim. lxxi. 197, l’an 1809. Footnote 1228: Experiments in Scudamore’s analysis of Tunbridge Water, 1816. Footnote 1229: A Treatise on Poisons, &c. First Edition, 1829. Footnote 1230: Philosophical Magazine. Third Series, v. 81, 1834. Footnote 1231: Guy’s Hospital Reports, 1838, iii. 60. Footnote 1232: Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1842, xv. 265. Footnote 1233: Toxicologie Gén. 1843, i. 657. Footnote 1234: Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, xv. 265. Footnote 1235: The statement here given of these phenomena is somewhat different from what is contained in the last edition of this work. The present account is derived from ulterior experiments, partly published in my paper in the Edinburgh Transactions. The discrepancies formerly prevailing between my own researches and those of Captain Yorke are now completely reconciled. Footnote 1236: Journal de Chim. Méd. ix 714. Footnote 1237: Annales d’Hyg. Publ. et de Méd. Lég. iv. 55. 1830. Footnote 1238: Journal de Chim. Médicale, ix. 716. This adulteration has likewise since then attracted attention in London. See British Annals of Medicine, 1837, i. 15. Footnote 1239: Annales de Chimie, lxxi. 197. Footnote 1240: In distilled water containing a 12,000th of anhydrous _arseniate of soda_ three lead rods weighing 71·235 grains became in thirty-three days 71·240; in a solution of a 15,000th the lead, though slightly whitened, retained its weight exactly, weighing at the end, as at the beginning, of the experiment 62·622 grains. In distilled water containing a 35,000th of anhydrous _phosphate of soda_, three lead rods, which weighed together 73·949 grains, became in thirty-two days 73·946; and in a comparative experiment with a solution containing a 27,000th they gained 0·015. Footnote 1241: Sometimes, however, a minute trace of white powder is attached to the bottom of the glass wherever the lead touches it. This is carbonate of lead at first, and afterwards a mixture like that described in the text. Footnote 1242: Mr. Morson in Pharmaceutic Journal, ii. 355. Footnote 1243: On Spring Waters, p. 23. Footnote 1244: Tronchin de Col. Pict. 66.—1757. Footnote 1245: De la Colique Métallique, 99, from Wanstroostwyk de l’Electricité Médicale, p. 224. Footnote 1246: Appendix to Dr. Scudamore’s Analysis of the Mineral Water of Tunbridge, p. 51. Footnote 1247: Some effect may perhaps be also owing to a difference between the proportion of saline matter contained in the water of the Crawley spring, which has been introduced into the city since Dr. Thomson resided here, and the proportion in the water with which the city was at that time supplied, I am not aware, however, of the difference between them, or that any material difference does exist. Footnote 1248: Trans. of London College of Physicians, ii. 400. Footnote 1249: Hints on a mode of procuring Soft Water at Tunbridge—Journal of Science, xiv. 352. Footnote 1250: Scudamore’s Pamphlet—Appendix—_passim_. Footnote 1251: Ibidem, p. 47. Footnote 1252: Edinburgh Royal Society Transactions, xv. 265. Footnote 1253: On Spring Waters, p. 14. Footnote 1254: Ibidem, 116. Footnote 1255: De la Colique Métallique, p. 98. Footnote 1256: Dr. Duncan’s Medical Commentaries, xix. 313. Footnote 1257: Comment. ad Boerhaave. § 1060, T. iii. 347. Edit. Lugd. Batav. 1753. Footnote 1258: Scudamore on the Analysis of Tunbridge Water, Appendix, 51, 53. Footnote 1259: Rozier. Observations sur la Physique, xiii. 145. Footnote 1260: Annales d’Hygiène Publique, 1842, xxvii. 111. Footnote 1261: Ann. de Chim. lvii. 82. Footnote 1262: Zoonomia, ii. 130. Footnote 1263: Trans. of London College of Physicians, iii. 227. Footnote 1264: On the Diseases of the Army in Jamaica, p. 269. Footnote 1265: Philosophical Magazine, liv. 229. Footnote 1266: Trans. of London College of Physicians, i. 216. Footnote 1267: On the Cause of the Endemical Colic of Devonshire. Transactions of the London Coll. of Phys., i. ii. and iii. Footnote 1268: Annales d’Hygiène Publique, 1842, xxvii. 104. Footnote 1269: Elements of Medical Jurisprudence, ii. 319. Footnote 1270: Zeitschrift für die Staatsarzneikunde, 1827, xiii. 151. Footnote 1271: Mérat de la Colique Métallique. Footnote 1272: Diss. Inaug. sur la Collique de Madrid. Analyzed in Corvisart’s Journal de Médecine, xxxiv. 208. Footnote 1273: Hohnbaum, &c. p. 157. Footnote 1274: Geschichte der Mineralischen Gifte, 194. Footnote 1275: Note in an Essay by his Son,—Ueber Vergiftung durch Käse. Horn’s Archiv. 1828, i. 83. Footnote 1276: Gmelin’s Geschichte der Mineralischen Gifte, 216. Footnote 1277: Cockelius, Acta, &c. Dec. i. An. iv. Obs. 30. Brunnerus, Ibidem, Obs.

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1. Chapter 1 2. PART II.—OF INDIVIDUAL POISONS. 3. CHAPTER I. 4. 1. _On the Action of Poisons through Sympathy._ In the infancy of 5. 2. _Of the Action of Poisons through Absorption._—If doubts may be 6. 1. _Quantity_ affects their action materially. Not only do they produce 7. 2. _As to state of aggregation_,—poisons act the more energetically the 8. 3. The next modifying cause is _chemical combination_. This is sometimes 9. 4. The effect of _mixture_ depends partly on the poisons being diluted. 10. 5. _Difference of tissue_ is an interesting modifying power in a 11. 6. With respect to differences arising from _difference of organ_, these 12. 7. _Habit and Idiosyncrasy._—The remarks to be made under the present 13. 8. The last modifying cause to be mentioned comprehends certain 14. CHAPTER II. 15. 1. The first characteristic is the _suddenness of their appearance and 16. 2. The next general characteristic of the symptoms of poisoning is 17. 3. Another characteristic is _uniformity in the nature of the symptoms_ 18. 4. The fourth characteristic is, that _the symptoms begin soon after a 19. 5. Lastly, _the symptoms appear during a state of perfect health_. This 20. 1. As to the _suddenness of their invasion and rapidity of their 21. 2. As to the uniformity or _uninterrupted increase of the symptoms_, it 22. 3. It was stated above, that the third character, _uniformity in kind_ 23. 4. In the next place, it was observed that some reliance may be placed 24. 5. Little need be said with regard to _the symptoms beginning, while the 25. 1. It may have been discharged by vomiting and purging. Thus on the 26. 2. The poison may have disappeared, because it has been all absorbed. It 27. 3. Poisons may not be found, because the excess has been decomposed. 28. 4. Lastly, the poison which has been absorbed into the system, and may 29. 1. The evidence derived from _the effects of suspected food, drink, or 30. 2. In the case of _the vomited matter_ or _contents of the stomach_ 31. 3. The effects of _the flesh of poisoned animals_, eaten by other 32. 3. The next article, which relates to the proof of the administration of 33. 4. The next article in the moral evidence relates to the intent of the 34. 5. The next article among the moral circumstances,—the simultaneous 35. 6. The next article of the moral evidence relates to suspicious conduct 36. CHAPTER III. 37. CHAPTER I. 38. 1. _Arsenical_ White arsenic 185 39. 2. _Acids_ Sulphuric acid 32 40. 3. _Mercurials_ Corrosive sublimate 12 41. 4. _Other mineral irritants_ Tartar-emetic 2 42. 5. _Veget. irritants_ Colchicum 3 43. 7. _Opium_ Opium or Laudan. 180 44. 8. _Hydrocyanic acid_ Med. Hydroc. acid 27 45. 9. _Other veget. Narcotics_ Nux-vomica 3 46. 11. Unascertained 22 47. CHAPTER II. 48. 1. _Distension of the Stomach._—Mere distension of the stomach from 49. 2. _Rupture of the Stomach_ is not a common occurrence; but it sometimes 50. 3. _Rupture of the Duodenum_ is a very rare accident from internal 51. 4. Under the next head may be classed rupture of the other organs of the 52. 5. The next accident which may be noticed on account of its being liable 53. 6. _Of Bilious Vomiting and Simple Cholera._—Of all the diseases which 54. 7. _Of Malignant Cholera._—The history of this disease affords a fair 55. 8. _Of Inflammation of the Stomach._—Chronic inflammation of the stomach 56. 9. _Inflammation of the Intestines_ in its acute form is more common 57. 10. _Inflammation of the Peritonæum_, or lining membrane of the belly, 58. 11. The subject of _Spontaneous Perforation of the Stomach_ is an 59. 12. The _gullet_ may be perforated in a similar manner either with or 60. 13. _Perforation of the alimentary canal by worms_ may here also be 61. 14. The next diseases to be mentioned are melæna and hæmatemesis, or 62. 15. The last are _colic_, _iliac passion_, and _obstructed intestine_. 63. CHAPTER III. 64. 1. _When concentrated_ it is oily-looking, colourless, or brownish from 65. 2. _When diluted_, it may be distinguished from all ordinary acids by 66. 3. It is seldom that the medical jurist is called on to search for 67. 1. The most ordinary symptoms are those of the first variety,—namely, 68. 2. The second variety of symptoms belong to a peculiar modification of 69. 3. The third variety includes cases of imperfect recovery. These are 70. 4. The last variety comprehends cases of perfect recovery, which are 71. 1. _When concentrated_, nitric acid is easily known by the odour of its 72. 2. _In a diluted state_ this acid is not so easily recognised as the 73. 3. _When in a state of compound mixture_, nitric acid, like sulphuric 74. 1. Hydrochloric acid, _in its concentrated state_, is colourless, if 75. 2. _When diluted_, it is recognised with facility, first by 76. 3. In the last edition of this work I proposed for the detection of 77. CHAPTER IV. 78. CHAPTER V. 79. CHAPTER VI. 80. 1. In the form of a pure solution, its nature may be satisfactorily 81. 2. The only important modifications in the analysis rendered necessary 82. CHAPTER VII. 83. CHAPTER VIII. 84. CHAPTER IX. 85. CHAPTER X. 86. CHAPTER XI. 87. CHAPTER XII. 88. CHAPTER XIII. 89. 3. The arsenite of copper, or _mineral green_. 4. The arsenite of potass 90. 2. _Of the Tests for Arsenious Acid._ 91. 7. After the precipitate has thoroughly subsided, the supernatant liquid 92. introduction as a poison into the body. This topic, one of paramount 93. 1. _Arsenic may exist as an adulteration in some reagents._—It must be 94. 2. _Arsenic may be present in some articles of chemical 95. 3. _Arsenic may have existed in antidotes administered during life._—It 96. 4. _Arsenic sometimes exists naturally in the human body._—This 97. 5. _Arsenic may exist in the soil of churchyards._—This proposition too 98. 3. _Arsenite of Copper_. 99. 4. _Arsenite of Potass_. 100. 5. _Arseniate of Potass._ 101. 6. _The Sulphurets of Arsenic._ 102. 7. _Arseniuretted-Hydrogen._ 103. 1. In one order of cases, then, arsenic produces symptoms of irritation 104. 2. The second variety of poisoning with arsenic includes a few cases in 105. 3. The third variety of poisoning with arsenic places in a clear point 106. CHAPTER XIV. 107. 1. _Of Red Precipitate._ 108. 2. _Of Cinnabar._ 109. 3. _Of Turbith Mineral._ 110. 4. _Of Calomel._ 111. 5. _Of Corrosive Sublimate._ 112. 1. _Hydrosulphuric acid gas_ transmitted in a stream through a solution 113. 1. _Lime-Water_ throws down the binoxide of mercury in the form of a 114. 6. _Of Bicyanide of Mercury._ 115. 7. _Of the Nitrates of Mercury._ 116. 1. The symptoms in the first variety are very like what occur in the 117. 2. The second variety of poisoning with mercury comprehends the cases, 118. 3. The third variety of poisoning with mercury comprehends all the forms 119. introduction of corrosive sublimate into the stomach. The poison then 120. CHAPTER XV. 121. 1. _Mineral Green._ 122. 2. _Natural Verdigris._ 123. 3. _Blue Vitriol._ 124. 1. _Ammonia_ causes a pale azure precipitate, which is redissolved by an 125. 2. _Sulphuretted hydrogen gas_ causes a dark brownish-black precipitate, 126. 3. _Ferro-cyanate of potass_ causes a fine hair-brown precipitate, the 127. 4. A polished rod or plate of _metallic iron_, held in a solution of 128. 4. _Artificial Verdigris._ 129. 1. Should the subject of analysis not be a liquid, render it such by 130. 2. If the copper be extremely minute in quantity, sulphuretted hydrogen 131. CHAPTER XVI. 132. 1. _Caustic potass_ precipitates a white sesquioxide, but only if the 133. 2. _Nitric acid_ throws down a white precipitate, and takes it up again 134. 3. The _Infusion of Galls_ causes a dirty, yellowish-white precipitate; 135. 4. The best liquid reagent is _Hydrosulphuric acid_. In a solution 136. 5. When the solution is put into Marsh’s apparatus for detecting arsenic 137. 1. Subject a small portion of the liquid to a stream of hydrosulphuric 138. 2. If hydrosulphuric acid do not distinctly affect the liquid, or if no 139. 3. If antimony be not indicated in either of these ways in the fluid 140. CHAPTER XVII. 141. CHAPTER XVIII. 142. 1. _Of Litharge and Red Lead._ 143. 2. _Of White Lead._ 144. 3. _Of Sugar of Lead._ 145. 1. _Hydrosulphuric acid_ causes a black precipitate, the sulphuret of 146. 2. _Chromate of potass_, both in the state of proto-chromate and 147. 3. _Hydriodate of potass_ causes also a lively gamboge-yellow 148. 4. _A rod of zinc_ held for some time in the solution displaces the 149. 4. _Goulard’s Extract._ 150. introduction of lead into the body; and in the last the whole course of 151. introduction of lead into the body may be presumed to be the real cause. 152. introduction of lead into the system. Dr. Burton thinks it will when the 153. CHAPTER XIX. 154. CHAPTER XX. 155. CHAPTER XXI. 156. CHAPTER XXII. 157. CHAPTER XXIII. 158. CHAPTER XXIV. 159. CHAPTER XXV. 160. CHAPTER XXIV. 161. 1. Apoplexy is sometimes preceded at considerable intervals by warning 162. 2. Apoplexy attacks chiefly the old. It is not, however, confined to the 163. 3. The next criterion is, that apoplexy occurs chiefly among fat people. 164. 4. A fourth criterion is drawn from the relation which the appearance of 165. 5. Another criterion relates to the progress of the symptoms. The 166. 6. Although there is a great resemblance between the symptoms of 167. 7. In the last place, a useful criterion may be derived from the 168. 1. The epileptic fit _is sometimes preceded by certain warnings_, such 169. 2. The symptoms of the epileptic fit _almost always begin violently and 170. 3. As in apoplexy, so in epilepsy the patient _in general cannot be 171. 4. When a person dies in a fit of epilepsy, _the paroxysm generally 172. 5. M. Esquirol, a writer of high authority, says that epilepsy _very 173. CHAPTER XXVII. 174. 1. If there be any solid matter, it is to be cut into small fragments, 175. 2. Add now the solution of acetate of lead as long as it causes 176. 3. The fluid part is to be treated with hydrosulphuric acid gas, to 177. 4. It is useful, however, to separate the meconic acid also; because, as 178. 5. If there be a sufficiency of the original material, Merck’s process 179. 546. There is little doubt that poisoning with opium may cause 180. CHAPTER XXVIII. 181. CHAPTER XXIX. 182. CHAPTER XXX. 183. CHAPTER XXXI. 184. 1. M. Chomel of Paris has related a case of poisoning with the gas 185. 2. The fumes of burning charcoal have been long known to be deleterious. 186. 3. It is probable that in some circumstances a very small quantity of 187. 4. The vapours from burning coal are the most noxious of all kinds of 188. 5. Somewhat analogous to the symptoms now described are the effects of 189. CHAPTER XXXII. 190. CHAPTER XXXIII. 191. CHAPTER XXXIV. 192. CHAPTER XXXV. 193. CHAPTER XXXVI. 194. CHAPTER XXXVII. 195. CHAPTER XXXVIII. 196. CHAPTER XXXIX. 197. CHAPTER XL. 198. CHAPTER XLI. 199. 1. When the dose is small, much excitement and little subsequent 200. 2. When the effect is sufficiently great to receive the designation of 201. 160. In twenty-four hours more the breathing became laborious and 202. 3. The third degree of poisoning is not so often witnessed, because, in 203. CHAPTER XLII. 204. 1. _Poisoning with Arsenic and Alcohol._—A man, after taking twelve 205. 3. _Poisoning with Tartar-Emetic and Charcoal Fumes._—Under the head of 206. 4. _Poisoning with Alcohol and with Laudanum._—Under the head of 207. 5. _Poisoning with Laudanum and Corrosive Sublimate._—Of all the cases 208. 6. _Poisoning with Opium and Belladonna._—A lady, who used a compound 209. 7. In the following cases, the active poisons to which the individuals 210. 2. Apparatus for the distillation of fluids suspected to contain 211. 3. Tube for reducing very small portions of arsenic or mercury. The 212. 4. A small glass funnel for introducing the material into the tube 213. 5. The ordinary apparatus for disengaging sulphuretted-hydrogen. The 214. 6. Instrument for washing down scanty precipitates on filters. It is a 215. 7. Tubes of natural size for collecting small portions of mercury by 216. 8. Pipette, one-fourth the natural size, for removing by suction 217. 9. Apparatus for reducing the sulphurets of some metals by a stream of 218. 36. Quoted by Marx, die Lehre von den Giften, I. ii. 163. 219. 92. Vicarius, Ibidem, Obs. 100. Riselius, Ibidem, Dec. i. An. v. Obs. 220. 1762. See Marx, i. ii. 29. 221. 1. P. 476, changed “exasperated by the use of oil” to “exacerbated by 222. 2. P. 513, changed “I may here add a very opposite instance of 223. 6. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_.

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