Outlines of medical jurisprudence : intended to promote the studies of the medical and law students who attend his lectures / by Henry Howard.

  • Henry Howard
Date:
1845
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    tion of the system; vomiting, excessive langour, a feeble pulse, pains in the stomach, and cramps in the limbs; bilious vomiting and purging have followed large doses of iodine. It stimulates the liver, causes absorption of indolent glandular tumours] and it is said, that its long continued use has caused the disappearance of the testes and the mammae. In dogs poisoned by it, the stomach was found inflamed, with; numerous ulcerated points on its villous coat. No anti- dote is known. Its detection is easy. Boiled solutions of starch are delicate tests of the presence of iodine, or of hydri- odic acid, by the intense blue color produced. If hydriodate of potassa be present the color is evolved on adding to the starch a drop or two of the sulphuric acid. 2. Bromine is more poisonous than the last substance, but it is so rare, that it is unnecessary to describe its'effects or mode of detection. Gaseous Poisons. Of these some are fatal from the irritation they produce, A ; others are narcotic, B. A. 1. Chlorine. This gas, if incautiously inhaled, destroys life, by the irritation it produces. It causes violent constric- tion of the epiglottis and severe pain in the chest, even when diluted. It disinfects air contaminated by animal emana- tions. Its solution in water kills dogs ; and when injected into a vein, it speedily destroys life. It is most certainly detected by its smell. Antidotes. The inhalation of ammonia, or of sulphuric ether, or if nothing else be accessible, inhaling warm water from a tea pot or other vessel. A mixture of albumen and water, or milk may be given. 2. Hydrochloric Gas or Muriatic Acid Gas is still more irritating and destructive. It is largely emitted in the manu- facture of soda from salt, and is then most hostile to vegeta- tion ; l-36000th of it containing the atmosphere so as to de- stroy plants, as I found in experiments made several years ago. 3. Sulphurous Acid Gas is also most suffocating ; is, even when much diluted, very destructive to vegetation ; and has, as emanating from burning sulphur, sometimes been employed to commit infanticide. It renders the lungs very livid. 4. Nitric Oxide, and JSitrous Acid Vapour, are poisonr
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