On the transference of poisons from the blood to the alimentary canal / by Alfred S. Taylor.
- Alfred Swaine Taylor
- Date:
- [cbetween 1800 and 1899?]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: On the transference of poisons from the blood to the alimentary canal / by Alfred S. Taylor. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.
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![If the antimony found in the vomited mxicous matters depended on any residuary antimony in the stomach, there ia no reason why some should not have been found in them daily. The intermission in the appearance of the metal in the mucous fluids is in favour of its having been eliminated from the blood, at least in the latter part of the illness of deceased. It would seem, therefore, in Mrs. James's case, that there was no reasonable explanation of the facts, except that the antimony found by Dr. Edwards, was really eliminated in the mucous secretions of the stomach during life. He gave this opinion in his evidence, and thus put an end to a suspicion which had arisen, that the accused person who had seen the deceased once or twice while in the infirmary had taken the opportunity of administering to her one or more doses of the poison. ' The ^'iews here expressed receive confirmation from some experiments performed by Dr. Va,\j and myself in the sum- mer of 1859, and therefore wholly irrespective of the case of Mrs. James. Experiment 1.—Dr. Pavy injected a solution of six gi'ains of tartarized antimony into the jugular vein of a dog. The animal was found dead in the morning, within eight hours of the performance of the experiment. Dr. Pavy brought to ma the stomach and intestines of the animal. The mucous membrane of the stomach was much corrugated, but there were no marks of irritation, nor any signs of unnatural redness. In the middle portion of the duodenum there was slight reduess, and there was injection and ecchymosis about the lower part of the jeju- num and ileum. The ileo-csecal valve was very much injected. The lower half of the large intestines had its mucous membrane highly corrugated and strongly reddened, and the redness of the membrane was' particularly marked in the rectum. The substance of the stomach, with the mucous matter ad- hering to it, was examined by the process of Reinsch, and a quantity of antimony was extracted, whicli was calculated at about ]-700th of a grain. Antimony Avas also found in the rectum in about the same proportion. Experiment 2.—July 4tli 1859. Three grains of tartar emetic](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21472683_0006.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
