Hazardous Substances: 6 Key Books in the Study of Toxicology
Six Foundational Works on Poisons, Forensic Evidence, Industrial Hazards, and Public HealthBy Josef Rambousek, William Roughead, William Anderson Syme, Harold Cecil Long, Richard Mead
Length48h 52m
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Hazardous Substances: 6 Key Books in the Study of Toxicology gathers foundational writing on poison, exposure, forensic inference, and the uneasy boundary between scientific evidence and legal judgment. Across case-centered narrative, medico-legal discussion, practical observation, and analytical exposition, the volume charts toxicology's emergence as a discipline concerned equally with bodies, substances, and proof. Its most compelling selections illuminate how hazardous materials become intelligible through symptoms, experiments, testimony, and contested interpretation. Josef Rambousek, William Roughead, William Anderson Syme, Harold Cecil Long, and Richard Mead represent distinct professional and literary approaches to questions of harm and causation. Read together, their works situate toxicological knowledge within the longer histories of forensic medicine, criminal investigation, public hygiene, and scientific specialization. The collection's juxtaposition of technical authority with narrative reconstruction reveals that toxicology developed through encounters among laboratories, courts, medical practice, and public anxieties. Recommended for students of science, medicine, law, and cultural history, this volume offers an unusually rich opportunity to compare methods, vocabularies, and ethical concerns within one field. Readers will find both educational breadth and a productive dialogue between scientific analysis and human narrative.
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GenreHealth and Wellness, Literary Classics
Length48 hrs 52 mins
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Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1A Mechanical Account of Poisons in Several Essays
2A Mechanical Account of Poisons in Several Essays
3THE PREFACE
4ESSAY. I.
5ESSAY II.
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6ESSAY III.
7ESSAY IV.
8ESSAY V.
9The Explication of Those Figures which are not Explained in the Treatise.
10Trial of Mary Blandy
11Trial of Mary Blandy
12PREFACE
13LEADING DATES IN THE BLANDY CASE
14THE TRIAL (pt. 1)
15THE TRIAL (pt. 2)
16THE TRIAL (pt. 3)
17THE TRIAL (pt. 4)
18The Most Extraordinary Trial of William Palmer, for the Rugeley Poisonings, which lasted Twelve Days
19The Most Extraordinary Trial of William Palmer, for the Rugeley Poisonings, which lasted Twelve Days
20MEMOIR OF WILLIAM PALMER.
21TRIAL OF WILLIAM PALMER FOR THE RUGELEY POISONINGS. (pt. 1)
22TRIAL OF WILLIAM PALMER FOR THE RUGELEY POISONINGS. (pt. 2)
23TRIAL OF WILLIAM PALMER FOR THE RUGELEY POISONINGS. (pt. 3)
24TRIAL OF WILLIAM PALMER FOR THE RUGELEY POISONINGS. (pt. 4)
25TRIAL OF WILLIAM PALMER FOR THE RUGELEY POISONINGS. (pt. 5)
26TRIAL OF WILLIAM PALMER FOR THE RUGELEY POISONINGS. (pt. 6)
27TRIAL OF WILLIAM PALMER FOR THE RUGELEY POISONINGS. (pt. 7)
28Some Constituents of the Poison Ivy Plant
29Some Constituents of the Poison Ivy Plant (Rhus Toxicodendron)
30(RHUS TOXICODENDRON)
31SUMMARY.
32Plants Poisonous to Live Stock
33Plants Poisonous to Live Stock
34PREFACE
35CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION.
36CHAPTER II RANUNCULACEÆ.
37CHAPTER III CELASTRACEÆ.
38CHAPTER IV ARALIACEÆ.
39CHAPTER V SCROPHULARINEÆ
40CHAPTER VI DIOSCORIDEÆ.
41CHAPTER VII PLANTS SUSPECTED OF BEING POISONOUS.
42CHAPTER VIII THE EFFECTS OF PLANTS ON MILK.
43CHAPTER IX CLASSIFICATION OF POISONS.
44Industrial Poisoning from Fumes, Gases and Poisons of Manufacturing Processes
45Industrial Poisoning from Fumes, Gases and Poisons of Manufacturing Processes
46INTRODUCTION
47INDUSTRIAL POISONING (pt. 1)
48INDUSTRIAL POISONING (pt. 2)
49INDUSTRIAL POISONING (pt. 3)
50PART II THE SYMPTOMS AND TREATMENT OF INDUSTRIAL POISONING
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