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
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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
Length49 hrs 53 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1A Mechanical Account of Poisons in Several Essays
2THE PREFACE
3ESSAY. I.
4ESSAY II.
5ESSAY III.
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6ESSAY IV.
7ESSAY V.
8The Explication of Those Figures which are not Explained in the Treatise.
9Trial of Mary Blandy
10PREFACE
11LEADING DATES IN THE BLANDY CASE
12THE TRIAL (pt. 1)
13THE TRIAL (pt. 2)
14THE TRIAL (pt. 3)
15THE TRIAL (pt. 4)
16The Most Extraordinary Trial of William Palmer, for the Rugeley Poisonings, which lasted Twelve Days
17MEMOIR OF WILLIAM PALMER.
18TRIAL OF WILLIAM PALMER FOR THE RUGELEY POISONINGS. (pt. 1)
19TRIAL OF WILLIAM PALMER FOR THE RUGELEY POISONINGS. (pt. 2)
20TRIAL OF WILLIAM PALMER FOR THE RUGELEY POISONINGS. (pt. 3)
21TRIAL OF WILLIAM PALMER FOR THE RUGELEY POISONINGS. (pt. 4)
22TRIAL OF WILLIAM PALMER FOR THE RUGELEY POISONINGS. (pt. 5)
23TRIAL OF WILLIAM PALMER FOR THE RUGELEY POISONINGS. (pt. 6)
24TRIAL OF WILLIAM PALMER FOR THE RUGELEY POISONINGS. (pt. 7)
25Some Constituents of the Poison Ivy Plant
26Some Constituents of the Poison Ivy Plant (Rhus Toxicodendron)
27(RHUS TOXICODENDRON)
28SUMMARY.
29Plants Poisonous to Live Stock
30PREFACE
31CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION.
32CHAPTER II RANUNCULACEÆ.
33CHAPTER III CELASTRACEÆ.
34CHAPTER IV ARALIACEÆ.
35CHAPTER V SCROPHULARINEÆ
36CHAPTER VI DIOSCORIDEÆ.
37CHAPTER VII PLANTS SUSPECTED OF BEING POISONOUS.
38CHAPTER VIII THE EFFECTS OF PLANTS ON MILK.
39CHAPTER IX CLASSIFICATION OF POISONS.
40Industrial Poisoning from Fumes, Gases and Poisons of Manufacturing Processes
41INTRODUCTION
42INDUSTRIAL POISONING (pt. 1)
43INDUSTRIAL POISONING (pt. 2)
44INDUSTRIAL POISONING (pt. 3)
45PART II THE SYMPTOMS AND TREATMENT OF INDUSTRIAL POISONING
46PART III PREVENTIVE MEASURES AGAINST INDUSTRIAL POISONING (pt. 1)
47PART III PREVENTIVE MEASURES AGAINST INDUSTRIAL POISONING (pt. 2)
48Footnote
49Footnote
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