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Excerpt: "Some poisons of this kind act chiefly, if not solely, on the heart. The best examples are infusion of tobacco, and upas antiar. Sir B. Brodie observed, that when the infusion of tobacco was injected into any part of the body, it speedily caused great faintness and sinking of the pulse; and on examining the body instantly after death, he found the heart distended and paralyzed, not excitable even by galvanism, and its aortal cavities filled not with black, but with florid blood, while the voluntary muscles were as irritable as after other kinds of death."
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Table of contents
1PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION.
28CHAPTER XVIII. OF POISONING WITH LEAD. (pt. 1)
2PART FIRST. OF GENERAL POISONING.
29CHAPTER XVIII. OF POISONING WITH LEAD. (pt. 2)
3CHAPTER I. ON THE PHYSIOLOGICAL ACTION OF POISONS.
30CHAPTER XIX. OF POISONING WITH BARYTA.
4CHAPTER II. ON THE EVIDENCE OF GENERAL POISONING. (pt. 1)
31CHAPTER XX.
5CHAPTER II. ON THE EVIDENCE OF GENERAL POISONING. (pt. 2)
32CHAPTER XXI. OF POISONING WITH CANTHARIDES.
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6CHAPTER III. OF IMAGINARY PRETENDED, AND IMPUTED POISONING.
33CHAPTER XXII. OF THE DELETERIOUS EFFECTS OF POISONOUS FISH.
7PART SECOND. OF INDIVIDUAL POISONS.
34CHAPTER XXIII. OF POISONING BY VENOMOUS SNAKES.
8CHAPTER I. OF THE CLASSIFICATION OF POISONS.
35CHAPTER XXIV. OF POISONING BY DISEASED AND DECAYED ANIMAL MATTER.
9CHAPTER II. CLASS FIRST. ON IRRITANT POISONS GENERALLY.
36CHAPTER XXV. OF POISONING BY MECHANICAL IRRITANTS.
10CHAPTER III. OF POISONING WITH THE MINERAL ACIDS.
37CHAPTER XXVI. CLASS SECOND. OF NARCOTIC POISONS GENERALLY.
11CHAPTER IV. ON POISONING WITH PHOSPHORUS AND THE OTHER BASES OF THE MINERAL ACIDS.
38CHAPTER XXVII. OF POISONING WITH OPIUM.
12CHAPTER V. OF POISONING WITH ACETIC ACID.
39CHAPTER XXVIII. OF POISONING WITH HYOSCYAMUS, LACTUCA, AND SOLANUM.
13CHAPTER VI. OF POISONING WITH OXALIC ACID.
40CHAPTER XXIX. OF POISONING WITH HYDROCYANIC ACID.
14CHAPTER VII. OF THE ALKALIS AND ALKALINE SALTS.
41CHAPTER XXX. OF POISONING WITH CARBAZOTIC ACID.
15CHAPTER VIII. OF POISONING WITH NITRATE OF POTASS.
42CHAPTER XXXI. OF THE POISONOUS GASES.
16CHAPTER IX. OF POISONING WITH THE ALKALINE AND EARTHY CHLORIDES.
43CHAPTER XXXII. CLASS THIRD. OF NARCOTICO-ACRID POISONS GENERALLY.
17CHAPTER X. OF POISONING WITH LIME.
44CHAPTER XXXIII. OF POISONING WITH NIGHTSHADE, THORN-APPLE, AND TOBACCO.
18CHAPTER XI. OF POISONING WITH AMMONIA AND ITS SALTS.
45CHAPTER XXXIV. OF POISONS OF THE UMBELLIFEROUS ORDER OF PLANTS.
19CHAPTER XII. OF POISONING WITH THE ALKALINE SULPHURETS.
46CHAPTER XXXV. OF THE NARCOTIC RANUNCULACEÆ.
20CHAPTER XIII. OF POISONING WITH ARSENIC. (pt. 1)
47CHAPTER XXXVI. OF POISONING WITH SQUILL, MEADOW-SAFFRON, WHITE HELLEBORE, AND FOXGLOVE.
21CHAPTER XIII. OF POISONING WITH ARSENIC. (pt. 2)
48CHAPTER XXXVII. OF POISONING WITH STRYCHNIA, NUX VOMICA, AND FALSE ANGUSTURA.
22CHAPTER XIII. OF POISONING WITH ARSENIC. (pt. 3)
49CHAPTER XXXVIII. OF POISONING WITH CAMPHOR, COCCULUS INDICUS, ETC.
23CHAPTER XIV. OF POISONING WITH MERCURY. (pt. 1)
50CHAPTER XXXIX. OF THE POISONOUS FUNGI.
24CHAPTER XIV. OF POISONING WITH MERCURY. (pt. 2)
51CHAPTER XL. OF THE EFFECTS OF POISONOUS GRAIN AND PULSE.
25CHAPTER XV. OF POISONING WITH COPPER
52CHAPTER XLI. OF POISONING WITH ALCOHOL, ETHER, AND EMPYREUMATIC OILS.
26CHAPTER XVI. OF POISONING WITH ANTIMONY.
53CHAPTER XLII. OF COMPOUND POISONING.
27CHAPTER XVII. OF POISONING WITH TIN, SILVER, GOLD, BISMUTH, CHROME, ZINC, AND IRON.
54DESCRIPTION OF THE PLATE.
