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Treatise on Poisons
Robert Christison
Robert Christison could name the poison in a corpse and testify to it in court, and he wrote the book that taught others how. His vast treatise covers the action of poisons, the evidence of poisoning and the tests that reveal it. A monumental and influential landmark of forensic toxicology. Consult the authority that a century of poisoners feared.
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186 chapters
- 1A TREATISE ON POISONS IN RELATION TO MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE, PHYSIOLOGY, AND THE PRACTICE OF PHYSIC.
- 2PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION.
- 3CONTENTS.
- 4PART FIRST. OF GENERAL POISONING.
- 5CHAPTER I. ON THE PHYSIOLOGICAL ACTION OF POISONS.
- 6Section I.—On the Mode of Action of Poisons.
- 7Section II.—On the Causes which modify the Actions of Poisons.
- 8CHAPTER II. ON THE EVIDENCE OF GENERAL POISONING.
- 9Section I.—Of the Evidence from Symptoms.
- 10Section II.—Of the Evidence from Morbid Appearances.
- 11Section III.—Evidence from Chemical Analysis.
- 12Section IV.—Evidence from Experiments on Animals.
- 13Section V.—Of the Moral Evidence.
- 14CHAPTER III. OF IMAGINARY PRETENDED, AND IMPUTED POISONING.
- 15PART SECOND. OF INDIVIDUAL POISONS.
- 16CHAPTER I. OF THE CLASSIFICATION OF POISONS.
- 17CHAPTER II. CLASS FIRST. ON IRRITANT POISONS GENERALLY.
- 18Section I.—Of the Symptoms of the Irritant Poisons, compared with those of natural diseases.
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