Vlll PREFACE TO FIRST EDITIOX. 



reports, and we think that we have included everything of 

 importance published up to the present year (1888). 



To the physician the facts which have been made known 

 concerning the putrefactive and physiological alkaloids 

 must be of great value, and if this little work furnishes 

 the means by which members of the profession may become " 

 better a'^quainted with the nature of those poisons which 

 are introduced from without, and those which are gener- 

 ated within the body of man, the object of its authors will 

 be accomplished. 



UXITEESITT OF MiCHIGAK, JCLT, 1888. 



