Memoranda on Poisons
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Chapters (239)
- MEMORANDA ON POISONS.
- WORKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR.
- MEMORANDA ON POISONS.
- EDITOR’S PREFACE.
- AUTHOR’S PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.
- CONTENTS.
- TOXICOLOGICAL MEMORANDA. INTRODUCTION. CHAPTER I.
- DEFINITION AND MODE OF ACTION OF POISONS.
- CHAPTER II.
- DIAGNOSIS OF POISONING—DUTIES OF THE PRACTITIONER.
- CHAPTER III.
- DUTIES OF THE PRACTITIONER—TREATMENT OF POISONING.
- CHAPTER IV.
- DETECTION OF POISONS.
- CHAPTER V.
- CLASSIFICATION OF POISONS.
- I.—CORROSIVES. CHAPTER VI.
- THE CONCENTRATED MINERAL ACIDS.
- CHAPTER VII.
- THE CORROSIVE VEGETABLE ACIDS.
- CHAPTER VIII.
- THE CAUSTIC ALKALIES AND THEIR CARBONATES; POTASH, SODA, AMMONIA.
- II.—SIMPLE IRRITANTS. CHAPTER IX.
- SALTS OF THE ALKALIES AND ALKALINE EARTHS.
- CHAPTER X.
- SALTS OF THE METALS: ZINC—SILVER—TIN—BISMUTH—CHROME—IRON.
- CHAPTER XI.
- SIMPLE VEGETABLE AND ANIMAL IRRITANTS.
- VEGETABLE IRRITANTS.
- SIMPLE ANIMAL IRRITANTS.
- CHAPTER XII.
- IRRITANT GASES.
- III.—SPECIFIC IRRITANT POISONS.
- CHAPTER XIII.
- SPECIFIC MINERAL IRRITANTS.
- IODINE AND IODIDE OF POTASSIUM.
- CHAPTER XIV.
- PHOSPHORUS.
- CHAPTER XV.
- ARSENIC.
- CHAPTER XVI.
- ANTIMONIAL COMPOUNDS.
- CHAPTER XVII.
- MERCURY AND ITS COMPOUNDS.
- CHAPTER XVIII.
- PREPARATIONS OF LEAD.
- CHAPTER XIX.
- SALTS OF COPPER.
- CHAPTER XX. SPECIFIC VEGETABLE IRRITANTS.
- CHAPTER XXI. SPECIFIC ANIMAL IRRITANTS.
- Cantharides (Spanish Flies).
- IV.—NEUROTIC POISONS. CHAPTER XXII. NARCOTICS.
- NEUROTICS, ACTING ON THE BRAIN AND PRODUCING SLEEP.
- Opium.
- CHAPTER XXIII. ANÆSTHETICS.
- NEUROTICS ACTING ON THE BRAIN AND PRODUCING INSENSIBILITY.
- CHLOROFORM—CHLORAL—BICHLORIDE OF METHYLENE—ETHER—AMYLENE—NITROUS OXIDE.
- CHAPTER XXIV. INEBRIANTS.
- NEUROTICS ACTING ON THE BRAIN AND PRODUCING INTOXICATION.
- ALCOHOL—NITRO-BENZOLE—COCCULUS INDICUS—FUNGI, ETC.
- CHAPTER XXV. DELIRANTS.
- NEUROTICS ACTING ON THE BRAIN AND PRODUCING DELIRIUM.
- HYOSCYAMUS—BELLADONNA—STRAMONIUM—DATURA ALBA—NIGHTSHADE.
- CHAPTER XXVI. CONVULSIVES.
- NEUROTICS PRODUCING CONVULSIONS.
- NUX VOMICA—BRUCIA—STRYCHNIA.
- CHAPTER XXVII. HYPOSTHENISANTS.
- NEUROTICS PRODUCING DEATH BY SYNCOPE.
- ACONITE—PRUSSIC ACID.
- CHAPTER XXVIII. DEPRESSANTS.
- NEUROTICS PRODUCING MARKED DEPRESSION OF THE HEART’S ACTION.
- DIGITALIS—CALABAR BEAN—TOBACCO—HEMLOCK.
- CHAPTER XXIX. ASPHYXIANTS.
- NOXIOUS GASES, PRODUCING NEUROTIC SYMPTOMS.
- CHAPTER XXX. ABORTIVES.
- SUBSTANCES PRODUCING ABORTION.
- APPENDIX.
- ANTIMONY.
- ARSENIC.
- MERCURY.
- ACONITE.
- ACONITIA.
- ATROPIA.
- BELLADONNA.
- CANNIBIS INDICA.
- CANTHARIDES.
- COLCHICUM.
- DIGITALIS.
- HEMLOCK.
- IPECACUANHA.
- NUX VOMICA.
- OPIUM.
- INDEX.
- THE END.
- FOOTNOTES:
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