The Project Gutenberg eBook of Poisons, Their Effects and Detection
Title: Poisons, Their Effects and Detection
Author: Alexander Wynter Blyth
Release date: May 13, 2013 [eBook #42709]
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Language: English
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POISONS:
THEIR EFFECTS AND DETECTION.
BY THE SAME AUTHOR.
Fourth Edition. At Press.
FOODS:
THEIR COMPOSITION AND ANALYSIS.
With numerous Tables and Illustrations.
General Contents.
History of Adulteration—Legislation, Past and Present—Apparatus useful to the Food Analyst—“Ash”—Sugar—Confectionery—Honey—Treacle—Jams and Preserved Fruits—Starches—Wheaten-Flour—Bread—Oats—Barley—Rye—Rice—Maize—Millet—Potato—Peas—Chinese Peas—Lentils—Beans—Milk—Cream—Butter—Cheese—Tea—Coffee—Cocoa and Chocolate—Alcohol—Brandy—Rum—Whisky—Gin—Arrack—Liqueurs—Beer—Wine—Vinegar—Lemon and Lime Juice—Mustard—Pepper—Sweet and Bitter Almond—Annatto—Olive Oil—Water. Appendix: Text of English and American Adulteration Acts.
“Will be used by every Analyst.”—Lancet.
“Stands Unrivalled for completeness of information. . . . A really ‘practical’ work for the guidance of practical men.”—Sanitary Record.
“An ADMIRABLE DIGEST of the most recent state of knowledge. . . . Interesting even to lay-readers.”—Chemical News.
In Large 8vo, Handsome Cloth. 21s.
FORENSIC MEDICINE
AND
TOXICOLOGY.
By J. DIXON MANN, M.D., F.R.C.P.,
Professor of Medical Jurisprudence and Toxicology in Owens College, Manchester;
Examiner in Forensic Medicine in the University of London, and in the
Victoria University; Physician to the Salford Royal Hospital.
Part I.—Forensic Medicine. Part II.—Insanity in its Medico-legal Bearings. Part III.—Toxicology.
“By far the MOST RELIABLE, MOST SCIENTIFIC, and MOST MODERN book on Medical Jurisprudence with which we are acquainted.”—Dublin Medical Journal.
“A most useful work of reference. . . . Of value to all those who, as medical men or lawyers, are engaged in cases where the testimony of medical experts forms a part of the evidence.”—The Law Journal.
London: Charles Griffin & Co., Ltd., Exeter St., Strand.
POISONS:
THEIR EFFECTS AND DETECTION.
A MANUAL FOR THE USE OF ANALYTICAL
CHEMISTS AND EXPERTS.
WITH AN INTRODUCTORY ESSAY ON THE GROWTH OF MODERN TOXICOLOGY.
BY
ALEXANDER WYNTER BLYTH,
M.R.C.S., F.I.C., F.C.S., &c.,
BARRISTER-AT-LAW; PUBLIC ANALYST FOR THE COUNTY OF DEVON; AND MEDICAL OFFICER OF
HEALTH AND PUBLIC ANALYST FOR ST. MARYLEBONE.
THIRD EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED.
With Tables and Illustrations.
LONDON:
CHARLES GRIFFIN AND COMPANY, LIMITED,
EXETER STREET, STRAND.
1895.
(All Rights Reserved.)
D. VAN NOSTRAND COMPANY,
NEW YORK.
PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION.
The present edition, which appears on the same general plan as before, will yet be found to have been in great part re-written, enlarged, and corrected.
Analytical methods which experience has shown to be faulty have been omitted, and replaced by newer and more accurate processes.
The intimate connection which recent research has shown to exist between the arrangement of the constituent parts of an organic molecule and physiological action, has been considered at some length in a separate chapter.
The cadaveric alkaloids or ptomaines, bodies playing so great a part in food-poisoning and in the manifestations of disease, are in this edition treated of as fully as the limits of the book will allow.
The author, therefore, trusts that these various improvements, modifications, and corrections will enable “Poisons” to maintain the position which it has for so many years held in the esteem of toxicologists and of the medical profession generally.
The Court House, St. Marylebone, W.
June, 1895.