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Chapter 1: A TREATISE ON POISONS IN RELATION TO MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE, PHYSIOLOGY, AND THE PRACTICE OF PHYSIC.
By Sir Robert Christison
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A methodical medical treatise that examines poisons' physiological actions, distinguishing local and remote effects and mechanisms such as chemical corrosion, irritation, and nervous impressions. It sets out how to recognize poisoning through symptoms, morbid appearances, chemical analysis, animal experiments, and circumstantial or moral evidence, and discusses limits of detection. The work then classifies individual poisons and provides detailed chapters on classes and specific substances—acids, alkalis, oxalic acid, arsenic, mercury, phosphorus, and others—covering tests, signs, morbid anatomy, and recommended treatments. Practical guidance for medico-legal investigation and treatment recurs throughout, with emphasis on differential diagnosis from natural disease and on laboratory and experimental methods.

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Title: Treatise on Poisons

Author: Sir Robert Christison

Release date: May 14, 2021 [eBook #65341]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024

Language: English

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A
TREATISE
ON
POISONS
IN RELATION TO
MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE, PHYSIOLOGY, AND THE PRACTICE OF PHYSIC.

BY
ROBERT CHRISTISON, M.D., F.R.S.E.,
Professor of Materia Medica in the University of Edinburgh, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, &c., Member of the American Philosophical Society,—of the Royal Acad. of Med. of Paris,—of the Imp. Soc. of Physicians of Vienna,—of the Imp. Med. Chir. Acad. of St. Petersburg,—of the Med. Chir. Soc. of Berlin,—of the Med. Chir. Assoc, of Hamburg,—of the Soc. of Nat. and Phys. of Heidelberg,—of the Philadelphia Coll. of Pharm.
FIRST AMERICAN, FROM THE FOURTH EDINBURGH EDITION.
PHILADELPHIA:
ED. BARRINGTON & GEO. D. HASWELL.
1845.