A General System Of Toxicology Or A Treatise On Poisons Drawn From The Mineral Vegetable And Animal Kingdoms

Author : Matthieu Joseph Bonaventure Orfila
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN 13 : 9781230095936
Total Pages : 86 pages
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Download or read book A General System of Toxicology; Or, a Treatise on Poisons, Drawn from the Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal Kingdoms, Considered As to Their Relations Wi written by Matthieu Joseph Bonaventure Orfila and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1815 edition. Excerpt: ...by one or other of the four following tests: the sulphate of ammoniacal copper, the sulphurated hydrogen, the nitrate of silver, and lime-water. Some of these tests furnished a precipitate different in colour to what the arsenious acid would have furnished, had it been without mixture. The sulphurated hydrogen has almost always given a yellow precipitate: the sulphate of ammoniacal copper, less constant in its action, has not always given a green precipitate: the lime-water and the nitrate of silver, have often presented depositions of a different colour to those which they form with the arsenious acid unmixed. 142. All these mixtures when evaporated to dryness, and calcined with potash and charcoal in a glass tube, yielded metallic arsenic, shining, volatile, and adhering to the sides of the tube. ACTION OF ARSENIOUS ACID UPON THE ANIMAL OZCONOMY. 143. This acid, whether administered internally, or applied externally, acts with a great degree of energy, and destroys life usually in a very short space of time. What is the kind of action produced by this substance, and in what manner does death happen from it?--Mr. Brodie has published a work, the intention of which is to resolve these two questions. We will give an account of the conclusions to which he arrived.f Tlie most generally received opinion is, that the arsenious acid being brought into contact with the stomach, produces a local inflammation, which ought to be considered as the cause of death. The English physiologist rejects, with reason, this explanation, in order to make way for another, which does not appear to us better founded. He asserts, that the arsenious acid, whether administered internally, or applied externally, begins by entering into the stream of the circulation;...