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Holistic Healing

Legal Chemistry

Alfred Naquet and Jesse P. Battershall

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When a death looked like murder, chemistry was called to name the poison. Alfred Naquet's manual walks through the tests for digitaline, colchicine and unknown toxins, step by careful step. A crisp period handbook of the science that turned the laboratory into a witness. Follow the methods that first made poisons confess.

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  1. 1APPLICATION OF DIALYSIS IN THE DETECTION OF ALKALOIDS.
  2. 2IDENTIFICATION OF THE ALKALOID.
  3. 3IDENTIFICATION OF DIGITALINE, PICROTOXINE AND COLCHICINE.
  4. 4III. METHODS TO BE EMPLOYED, WHEN NO CLEW TO THE NATURE OF THE POISON PRESENT CAN BE OBTAINED.
  5. 5INDICATIVE TESTS.
  6. 6THE SUBSTANCE POSSESSES AN ACID REACTION.
  7. 7THE SUBSTANCE POSSESSES A NEUTRAL OR AN ALKALINE REACTION.
  8. 8DETERMINATIVE TESTS.
  9. 9IV. MISCELLANEOUS EXAMINATIONS.
  10. 10DETERMINATION OF THE NATURE AND COLOR OF THE HAIR AND BEARD.
  11. 11DETERMINATION OF THE COLOR OF THE HAIR AND BEARD.
  12. 12DETERMINATION OF THE NATURE OF THE HAIR.
  13. 13EXAMINATION OF FIRE-ARMS. (Proposed by M. Boutigny.)
  14. 14THE GUN IS PROVIDED WITH A FLINT-LOCK, AND WAS CHARGED WITH ORDINARY POWDER.
  15. 15THE GUN IS NOT PROVIDED WITH A FLINT LOCK.
  16. 16DETECTION OF HUMAN REMAINS IN THE ASHES OF A FIRE-PLACE.
  17. 17EXAMINATION OF WRITINGS.
  18. 18EXAMINATION OF WRITINGS IN CASES WHERE A SYMPATHETIC INK HAS BEEN USED.

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