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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.
2PART FIRST. OF GENERAL POISONING.
3CHAPTER I. ON THE PHYSIOLOGICAL ACTION OF POISONS.
4CHAPTER II. ON THE EVIDENCE OF GENERAL POISONING. (pt. 1)
5CHAPTER II. ON THE EVIDENCE OF GENERAL POISONING. (pt. 2)
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6CHAPTER III. OF IMAGINARY PRETENDED, AND IMPUTED POISONING.
7PART SECOND. OF INDIVIDUAL POISONS.
8CHAPTER I. OF THE CLASSIFICATION OF POISONS.
9CHAPTER II. CLASS FIRST. ON IRRITANT POISONS GENERALLY.
10CHAPTER III. OF POISONING WITH THE MINERAL ACIDS.
11CHAPTER IV. ON POISONING WITH PHOSPHORUS AND THE OTHER BASES OF THE MINERAL ACIDS.
12CHAPTER V. OF POISONING WITH ACETIC ACID.
13CHAPTER VI. OF POISONING WITH OXALIC ACID.
14CHAPTER VII. OF THE ALKALIS AND ALKALINE SALTS.
15CHAPTER VIII. OF POISONING WITH NITRATE OF POTASS.
16CHAPTER IX. OF POISONING WITH THE ALKALINE AND EARTHY CHLORIDES.
17CHAPTER X. OF POISONING WITH LIME.
18CHAPTER XI. OF POISONING WITH AMMONIA AND ITS SALTS.
19CHAPTER XII. OF POISONING WITH THE ALKALINE SULPHURETS.
20CHAPTER XIII. OF POISONING WITH ARSENIC. (pt. 1)
21CHAPTER XIII. OF POISONING WITH ARSENIC. (pt. 2)
22CHAPTER XIII. OF POISONING WITH ARSENIC. (pt. 3)
23CHAPTER XIV. OF POISONING WITH MERCURY. (pt. 1)
24CHAPTER XIV. OF POISONING WITH MERCURY. (pt. 2)
25CHAPTER XV. OF POISONING WITH COPPER
26CHAPTER XVI. OF POISONING WITH ANTIMONY.
27CHAPTER XVII. OF POISONING WITH TIN, SILVER, GOLD, BISMUTH, CHROME, ZINC, AND IRON.
28CHAPTER XVIII. OF POISONING WITH LEAD. (pt. 1)
29CHAPTER XVIII. OF POISONING WITH LEAD. (pt. 2)
30CHAPTER XIX. OF POISONING WITH BARYTA.
31CHAPTER XX.
32CHAPTER XXI. OF POISONING WITH CANTHARIDES.
33CHAPTER XXII. OF THE DELETERIOUS EFFECTS OF POISONOUS FISH.
34CHAPTER XXIII. OF POISONING BY VENOMOUS SNAKES.
35CHAPTER XXIV. OF POISONING BY DISEASED AND DECAYED ANIMAL MATTER.
36CHAPTER XXV. OF POISONING BY MECHANICAL IRRITANTS.
37CHAPTER XXVI. CLASS SECOND. OF NARCOTIC POISONS GENERALLY.
38CHAPTER XXVII. OF POISONING WITH OPIUM.
39CHAPTER XXVIII. OF POISONING WITH HYOSCYAMUS, LACTUCA, AND SOLANUM.
40CHAPTER XXIX. OF POISONING WITH HYDROCYANIC ACID.
41CHAPTER XXX. OF POISONING WITH CARBAZOTIC ACID.
42CHAPTER XXXI. OF THE POISONOUS GASES.
43CHAPTER XXXII. CLASS THIRD. OF NARCOTICO-ACRID POISONS GENERALLY.
44CHAPTER XXXIII. OF POISONING WITH NIGHTSHADE, THORN-APPLE, AND TOBACCO.
45CHAPTER XXXIV. OF POISONS OF THE UMBELLIFEROUS ORDER OF PLANTS.
46CHAPTER XXXV. OF THE NARCOTIC RANUNCULACEÆ.
47CHAPTER XXXVI. OF POISONING WITH SQUILL, MEADOW-SAFFRON, WHITE HELLEBORE, AND FOXGLOVE.
48CHAPTER XXXVII. OF POISONING WITH STRYCHNIA, NUX VOMICA, AND FALSE ANGUSTURA.
49CHAPTER XXXVIII. OF POISONING WITH CAMPHOR, COCCULUS INDICUS, ETC.
50CHAPTER XXXIX. OF THE POISONOUS FUNGI.