A practical treatise on poisons and asphyxies, adapted to general use : followed by directions for the treatment of burns and for the distinction of real from apparent death / By M.P.[!] Orfila ... Tr. from the Fench, with notes and additions, by J.G. Stevenson, M.D., with an appendix.

  • Orfila, Matthieu Joseph Bonaventure, 1787-1853. Secours à donner aux personnes empoisonnées ou asphyxiées. English
Date:
1826
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Credit: A practical treatise on poisons and asphyxies, adapted to general use : followed by directions for the treatment of burns and for the distinction of real from apparent death / By M.P.[!] Orfila ... Tr. from the Fench, with notes and additions, by J.G. Stevenson, M.D., with an appendix. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CLASSIFICATION OF POISONS. All poisons may be arranged in the four fol- lowing classes : First ; irritating poisons causing an inflamma- tion of the parts to which they are applied : Second ; narcotic, or stupifying poisons : Third ; narcotico-acrid poisons : Fourth ; septic, or putrefactive poisons. FIRST CLASS. IRRITATING POISONS CAUSING AN INFLAMMATION OF THE PARTS TO WHICH THEY ARE APPLIED. This class includes the concentrated acids and alkalies, corrosive sublimate and all the mercuri- al preparations, arsenic and all its compounds, verdigris and the other salts of copper, tartar emetic, butter of antimony and the other antimo- nial preparations, the oxides and the salts of tin, gold, bismuth, and zinc, lunar caustic and the crystallized nitrate of silver, nitre, sal ammoniac [muriate of ammonia], the liver of sulphur [sul- phuret of potash], the salts of barytes, phospho- rus, glass in fragments or badly powdered, can-