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Treatise on Poisons In relation to medical jurisprudence, physiology, and the practice of physic

Christison, Robert, Sir · Public domain text

390,859 words · about 27 h 22 min to read

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Author
Christison, Robert, Sir (1797–1882)
Language
English
Subjects
Medical jurisprudence, Toxicology
Length
390,859 words · about 27 h 22 min
Sections
47 reader sections · Table of contents

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Contents (47)
  1. Opening about 2 min
  2. II. OF INDIVIDUAL POISONS about 4 min
  3. I. ON THE PHYSIOLOGICAL ACTION OF POISONS about 1 h 5 min
  4. II. ON THE EVIDENCE OF GENERAL POISONING about 1 h 34 min
  5. III. OF IMAGINARY PRETENDED, AND IMPUTED POISONING about 10 min
  6. I. OF THE CLASSIFICATION OF POISONS about 4 min
  7. II. CLASS FIRST. ON IRRITANT POISONS GENERALLY about 59 min
  8. III. OF POISONING WITH THE MINERAL ACIDS about 58 min
  9. IV. ON POISONING WITH PHOSPHORUS AND THE OTHER BASES OF THE MINERAL ACIDS about 29 min
  10. V. OF POISONING WITH ACETIC ACID about 7 min
  11. VI. OF POISONING WITH OXALIC ACID about 27 min
  12. VII. OF THE ALKALIS AND ALKALINE SALTS about 14 min
  13. VIII. OF POISONING WITH NITRATE OF POTASS about 8 min
  14. IX. OF POISONING WITH THE ALKALINE AND EARTHY CHLORIDES about 1 min
  15. X. OF POISONING WITH LIME about 1 min
  16. XI. OF POISONING WITH AMMONIA AND ITS SALTS about 6 min
  17. XII. OF POISONING WITH THE ALKALINE SULPHURETS about 3 min
  18. XIII. OF POISONING WITH ARSENIC about 3 h 7 min
  19. XIV. OF POISONING WITH MERCURY about 1 h 55 min
  20. XV. OF POISONING WITH COPPER about 43 min
  21. XVI. OF POISONING WITH ANTIMONY about 24 min
  22. XVII. OF POISONING WITH TIN, SILVER, GOLD, BISMUTH, CHROME, ZINC, AND IRON about 36 min
  23. XVIII. OF POISONING WITH LEAD about 1 h 45 min
  24. XIX. OF POISONING WITH BARYTA about 11 min
  25. Chapter XX about 38 min
  26. XXI. OF POISONING WITH CANTHARIDES about 15 min
  27. XXII. OF THE DELETERIOUS EFFECTS OF POISONOUS FISH about 14 min
  28. XXIII. OF POISONING BY VENOMOUS SNAKES about 6 min
  29. XXIV. OF POISONING BY DISEASED AND DECAYED ANIMAL MATTER about 28 min
  30. XXV. OF POISONING BY MECHANICAL IRRITANTS about 18 min
  31. XXIV. CLASS SECOND. OF NARCOTIC POISONS GENERALLY about 40 min
  32. XXVII. OF POISONING WITH OPIUM about 1 h 28 min
  33. XXVIII. OF POISONING WITH HYOSCYAMUS, LACTUCA, AND SOLANUM about 11 min
  34. XXIX. OF POISONING WITH HYDROCYANIC ACID about 1 h 6 min
  35. XXX. OF POISONING WITH CARBAZOTIC ACID about 3 min
  36. XXXI. OF THE POISONOUS GASES about 52 min
  37. XXXII. CLASS THIRD. OF NARCOTICO-ACRID POISONS GENERALLY about 3 min
  38. XXXIII. OF POISONING WITH NIGHTSHADE, THORN-APPLE, AND TOBACCO about 28 min
  39. XXXIV. OF POISONS OF THE UMBELLIFEROUS ORDER OF PLANTS about 19 min
  40. XXXV. OF THE NARCOTIC RANUNCULACEÆ about 18 min
  41. XXXVI. OF POISONING WITH SQUILL, MEADOW-SAFFRON, WHITE HELLEBORE, AND FOXGLOVE about 22 min
  42. XXXVII. OF POISONING WITH STRYCHNIA, NUX VOMICA, AND FALSE ANGUSTURA about 23 min
  43. XXXVIII. OF POISONING WITH CAMPHOR, COCCULUS INDICUS, ETC about 12 min
  44. XXXIX. OF THE POISONOUS FUNGI about 20 min
  45. XL. OF THE EFFECTS OF POISONOUS GRAIN AND PULSE about 30 min
  46. XLI. OF POISONING WITH ALCOHOL, ETHER, AND EMPYREUMATIC OILS about 30 min
  47. XLII. OF COMPOUND POISONING about 2 h 29 min

The opening of I. ON THE PHYSIOLOGICAL ACTION OF POISONS

I shall discuss this subject by considering first the mode in which poisons act, and secondly, the causes by which their action is liable to be modified.

SECTION I.—On the Mode of Action of Poisons.

On attending to the effects which follow the application of a poison to the body, we perceive that they are sometimes confined to the part where it is applied, and at other times extend to distant organs. Hence the action of poisons may be naturally considered as local and remote.

The local effects of poisons are of three kinds. Some decompose chemically or corrode the part to which they are applied. Others, without immediately injuring its organization, inflame or irritate it. Others neither corrode nor irritate, but make a peculiar impression on the sentient extremities of the nerves, unaccompanied by any visible change of structure.

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