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Poisons, Their Effects and Detection / A Manual for the Use of Analytical Chemists and Experts — Alexander Wynter Blyth

Poisons, Their Effects and Detection / A Manual for the Use of Analytical Chemists and Experts

Alexander Wynter Blyth

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 1077 pages

Poisons, Their Effects and Detection is a manual of toxicology in essay form, written for analytical chemists and experts. It examines poisons, their effects on the body, and the chemical methods used to detect them. It is worth listening to as a historical guide to forensic toxicology and analytical practice.

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Contents

  1. POISONS: THEIR EFFECTS AND DETECTION. A MANUAL FOR THE USE OF ANALYTICAL CHEMISTS AND EXPERTS.
  2. PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION.
  3. CONTENTS.
  4. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
  5. PART I.—INTRODUCTORY.
  6. PART II.
  7. PART III.—POISONOUS GASES: CARBON MONOXIDE—CHLORINE—HYDRIC SULPHIDE.
  8. PART IV.—ACIDS AND ALKALIES.
  9. PART V.—MORE OR LESS VOLATILE POISONOUS SUBSTANCES CAPABLE OF BEING SEPARATED BY DISTILLATION FROM NEUTRAL OR ACID LIQUI
  10. PART VI.—ALKALOIDS AND POISONOUS VEGETABLE PRINCIPLES SEPARATED FOR THE MOST PART BY ALCOHOLIC SOLVENTS.
  11. PART VII.—POISONS DERIVED FROM LIVING OR DEAD ANIMAL SUBSTANCES.
  12. PART VIII.—THE OXALIC ACID GROUP OF POISONS.
  13. PART IX.—INORGANIC POISONS.
  14. APPENDIX.
  15. INDEX.
  16. Transcriber’s Notes
  17. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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