Memoranda on Poisons

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Author

Tanner, Thomas Hawkes

Credits

Produced by Chris Curnow, Paul Clark and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

RA: Medicine: Public aspects of medicine

Subject

Poisons

Category

Text

eBook-No.

39830

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39830

Release Date

May 28, 2012

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.MEMORANDA ON POISONS.
2. 2.WORKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR.
3. 3.MEMORANDA ON POISONS.
4. 4.EDITOR’S PREFACE.
5. 5.AUTHOR’S PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.
6. 6.CONTENTS.
7. 7.CHAPTER I. — DEFINITION AND MODE OF ACTION OF POISONS.
8. 8.CHAPTER II. — DIAGNOSIS OF POISONING—DUTIES OF THE PRACTITIONER.
9. 9.CHAPTER III. — DUTIES OF THE PRACTITIONER—TREATMENT OF POISONING.
10. 10.CHAPTER IV. — DETECTION OF POISONS.
11. 11.CHAPTER V. — CLASSIFICATION OF POISONS.
12. 12.CHAPTER VI. — THE CONCENTRATED MINERAL ACIDS.
13. 13.CHAPTER VII. — THE CORROSIVE VEGETABLE ACIDS.
14. 14.CHAPTER VIII. — THE CAUSTIC ALKALIES AND THEIR CARBONATES; POTASH, SODA, AMMONIA.
15. 15.CHAPTER IX. — SALTS OF THE ALKALIES AND ALKALINE EARTHS.
16. 16.CHAPTER X. — SALTS OF THE METALS: ZINC—SILVER—TIN—BISMUTH—CHROME—IRON.
17. 17.CHAPTER XI. — SIMPLE VEGETABLE AND ANIMAL IRRITANTS. — VEGETABLE IRRITANTS. — SIMPLE ANIMAL IRRITANTS.
18. 18.CHAPTER XII. — IRRITANT GASES.
19. 19.III.—SPECIFIC IRRITANT POISONS.
20. 20.CHAPTER XIII. — SPECIFIC MINERAL IRRITANTS. — IODINE AND IODIDE OF POTASSIUM.
21. 21.CHAPTER XIV. — PHOSPHORUS.
22. 22.CHAPTER XV. — ARSENIC.
23. 23.CHAPTER XVI. — ANTIMONIAL COMPOUNDS.
24. 24.CHAPTER XVII. — MERCURY AND ITS COMPOUNDS.
25. 25.CHAPTER XVIII. — PREPARATIONS OF LEAD.
26. 26.CHAPTER XIX. — SALTS OF COPPER.
27. 27.CHAPTER XX. SPECIFIC VEGETABLE IRRITANTS.
28. 28.CHAPTER XXI. SPECIFIC ANIMAL IRRITANTS. — Cantharides ( Spanish Flies ).
29. 29.CHAPTER XXII. NARCOTICS. — NEUROTICS, ACTING ON THE BRAIN AND PRODUCING SLEEP. — Opium.
30. 30.CHAPTER XXIII. ANÆSTHETICS. — NEUROTICS ACTING ON THE BRAIN AND PRODUCING INSENSIBILITY. — CHLOROFORM—CHLORAL—BICHLORIDE OF METHYLENE—ETHER—AMYLENE—NITROUS OXIDE.
31. 31.CHAPTER XXIV. INEBRIANTS. — NEUROTICS ACTING ON THE BRAIN AND PRODUCING INTOXICATION. — ALCOHOL—NITRO-BENZOLE—COCCULUS INDICUS—FUNGI, ETC.
32. 32.CHAPTER XXV. DELIRANTS. — NEUROTICS ACTING ON THE BRAIN AND PRODUCING DELIRIUM. — HYOSCYAMUS—BELLADONNA—STRAMONIUM—DATURA ALBA—NIGHTSHADE.
33. 33.CHAPTER XXVI. CONVULSIVES. — NEUROTICS PRODUCING CONVULSIONS. — NUX VOMICA—BRUCIA—STRYCHNIA.
34. 34.CHAPTER XXVII. HYPOSTHENISANTS. — NEUROTICS PRODUCING DEATH BY SYNCOPE. — ACONITE—PRUSSIC ACID.
35. 35.CHAPTER XXVIII. DEPRESSANTS. — NEUROTICS PRODUCING MARKED DEPRESSION OF THE HEART’S ACTION. — DIGITALIS—CALABAR BEAN—TOBACCO—HEMLOCK.
36. 36.CHAPTER XXIX. ASPHYXIANTS. — NOXIOUS GASES, PRODUCING NEUROTIC SYMPTOMS.
37. 37.CHAPTER XXX. ABORTIVES. — SUBSTANCES PRODUCING ABORTION.
38. 38.APPENDIX. — ANTIMONY. — ARSENIC. — MERCURY. — ACONITE. — ACONITIA. — ATROPIA. — BELLADONNA. — CANNIBIS INDICA. — CANTHARIDES. — COLCHICUM. — DIGITALIS. — HEMLOCK. — IPECACUANHA. — NUX VOMICA. — OPIUM.
39. 39.INDEX. — THE END.
40. 40.FOOTNOTES:

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