On Poisons, in Relation to Medical Jurisprudence and MedicineLea & Blanchard, 1848 - 687 páginas |
Outras edições - Ver tudo
On Poisons in Relation to Medical Jurisprudence and Medicine Alfred Swaine Taylor Visualização integral - 1859 |
On Poisons in Relation to Medical Jurisprudence and Medicine Alfred Swaine Taylor Visualização integral - 1859 |
On Poisons in Relation to Medical Jurisprudence and Medicine Alfred Swaine Taylor Visualização integral - 1859 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
abdomen acetate action administered alcohol alkaline ammonia analysis animal antidote antimony arsenic arsenious acid barytes blood body boiling calomel carbonate carbonic acid cause chemical child chloride Christison colour commonly contained convulsions copper corrosive sublimate d'Hyg death deceased destroy detected died diluted disease dissolved distilled drachms effects emetic evidence experiments grains half heat hydrosulphuret inflamed insoluble instance intestines iodic acid iron irritant poisoning large doses large quantity lead liquid medical jurist medical witness medicine mercury metallic minutes mixture morphia mucous membrane muriatic acid nitrate of silver nitric acid observed odour opium Orfila organic ounce oxalic acid oxide pain patient portion post-mortem appearances potash potassium powder precipitate present produced proved fatal prussic acid pulse recovered respiration salt small quantity soluble solution stomach strychnia substance sulphate sulphuretted hydrogen sulphuric acid swallowed symptoms taken tincture tion urine vapour violent viscera vomiting yellow zinc
Passagens conhecidas
Página 478 - ... eyes, betray him at the first glance. The digestive organs are in the highest degree disturbed ; the sufferer eats scarcely anything, and has hardly one evacuation in a week ; his mental and bodily powers are destroyed, — he is impotent.
Página 19 - ... shall, by drawing a trigger, or in any other manner attempt to discharge any kind of loaded arms at any person, or who shall unlawfully and maliciously stab, cut, or wound any person, &c.
Página 550 - No change apparently takes place in the hydrosulphuret; but if the watch-glass be removed after the lapse of from half a minute to ten minutes, according to the quantity and strength of...
Página 120 - I never saw any two things in nature more alike than the decoction made with the powder found in Mr. Blandy's gruel, and that made with white arsenic.
Página 629 - From this beverage intoxication will ensue in half an hour. Almost invariably the inebriation is of the most cheerful kind, causing the person to sing and dance, to eat food with great relish, and to seek aphrodisiac enjoyments. In persons of a quarrelsome disposition it occasions, as might be expected, an exasperation of their natural tendency.
Página 603 - In about twenty minutes one man, without any apparent warning, fell down in strong convulsions, which soon ceased, but left a wild expression on his countenance. Soon afterwards, as many as nine fell into a state of convulsions and insensibility. The face of the man first seized became bloated and livid, there was a...
Página 607 - The body was opened in two minutes more, and the heart was found gorged with blood, but contracting with some force. The stomach was filled with green pulp, soaked with the infusion. No morbid appearance was visible anywhere. In repeating this experiment, one rabbit died in half an hour, another in three quarters of an hour, after small doses of the infusion were injected into the stomach ; and a third rabbit speedily died after eating greens merely impregnated with the infusion. In all these instances...
Página 456 - Chilton on this subject, that in some of these infected districts, the inhabitants, with a recklessness of human life which seems incredible, carry the butter and cheese which they themselves dare not eat to the markets of the towns west of the Alleghanies, and that thus there are frequently produced symptoms of poisoning and even death, for which the medical attendant cannot account, or he is induced to consider as some new or anomalous form of disease.
Página 433 - The bread was simply in a mouldy slate ; there was no trace of poison. It is unnecessary to enter further into this subject ; the facts adduced, together with experiments performed on animals, show that bread, in a state of mouldiness, may not only produce symptoms of poisoning, but actually cause death; and as it is impossible to distinguish the noxious from the innoxious kind of mould, the use of all bread in such a condition should be avoided.