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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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Please see Transcriber’s Notes at the

end of this document.

Title page

POISONS:

THEIR EFFECTS AND DETECTION.

BY THE SAME AUTHOR.

Fourth Edition. At Press.

FOODS:

THEIR COMPOSITION AND ANALYSIS.

With numerous Tables and Illustrations.

General Contents.

History of Adulteration—Legislation, Past and Present—Apparatus useful to the Food Analyst—“Ash”—Sugar—Confectionery—Honey—

Treacle—Jams and Preserved Fruits—Starches—Wheaten-Flour—

Bread—Oats—Barley—Rye—Rice—Maize—Millet—Potato—Peas—

Chinese Peas—Lentils—Beans—MƗƯƫ—Cream—Butter—Cheese—Tea

—Coffee—Cocoa and Chocolate—Alcohol—Brandy—Rum—Whisky—

Gin—Arrack—Liqueurs—Beer—Wine—Vinegar—Lemon

and

Lime

Juice—Mustard—Pepper—Sweet and Bitter Almond—Annatto—Olive

Oil—Water. Appendix: Text of English and American Adulteration

Acts.

“Will be used by every Analyst.”—Lancet.

“SǵĵƿŠǪ UƿǡƗ΄ĵƯƯŧŠ for completeness of information. . . . A really ‘practical’ work for the guidance of practical men.”—Sanitary Record.

“An ADMIRABLE DIGEST of the most recent state of knowledge. . . . Interesting even to lay-readers.”—Chemical News.

In Large 8vo, Handsome Cloth. 21s.

FORENSIC MEDICINE

AND

TOXICOLOGY.

BΏ J. DIXON MANN, M.D., F.R.C.P.,

Professor of Medical Jurisprudence and Toxicology in Owens College, Manchester;

Examiner in Forensic Medicine in the University of London, and in the Victoria

University; Physician to the Salford Royal Hospital.

Pĵǡǵ I.—Forensic Medicine. Pĵǡǵ II.—Insanity in its Medico-legal

Bearings. Pĵǡǵ III.—Toxicology.

“By far the MOST RELIABLE, MOST SCIENTIFIC, and MOST MODERN book on Medical

Jurisprudence with which we are acquainted.”—Dublin Medical Journal.

“A ƽLjǪǵ ǼǪŧżǼƯ work of reference. . . . Of value to all those who, as medical men or lawyers, are engaged in cases where the testimony of medical experts forms a part of the evidence.”—The Law Journal.

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POISONS:

THEIR EFFECTS AND

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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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