What to do in cases of poisoning / by William Murrell.

  • William Murrell
Date:
1887
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    fore giving evidence in a case of poisoning. They are supposed to be alkaloids generated during decay and they closely resemble the vegetable alkaloids—veratrine, morphine, and codeine, for example—not only in chemical characters, but also in physiological properties. They are commonly produced in substances which after exposure have been excluded from the air, in buried corpses for example. Defence in case of poisoning may be that the reactions Otftained were due to cadaveric alkaloids and not to any poison administered. See Steven- son on Ptomaines, L. M. R., Nov. 15, 1881, and B. M. y., June 23, 1883, also his articles on same subject in Taylor’s Medical yurispru- dence, 3rd edition, and Appendix to Quain’s Dictionary. The chemistry of the subject is well given in Wynter Blyth’s Poisons, their Effects and Detection, p. 461. THE FEE. I am often asked what should be the fee in a case of poisoning. It is not an easy matter to discuss, but still the subject cannot be passed by in silence. Clearly it is permissible to charge more for the treatment of a case of