INDEX 



AbRine, 266 



Abrus precatorms, 266 



poisoning by, 266 

 Absorption by alimentary tract, 9 



by lungs, 8 



by skin, 8 



mechanism of, 11 



of gases, 7 



of insoluble solids, 7 



of poisons, 6 



of soluble solids, 7 

 Accumulation, 15 

 Acids, detection of, 298 



poisoning by, 78 

 Aconite poisoning, post-mortem, 170 

 symptoms of, 170 

 treatment of, 171 

 Aoonitine, 168 



detection of, 171 

 Aconitum species, 168 

 Acorn disease, 269 

 Actcea, 185 

 Acute poisoning, 23 

 Adonis, 184 

 ^thusa cynapium, 220 

 Alcohol, chemical diagnosis of, 136 



occurrence of, 134 



poisoning, 135 



toxic doses of, 135 

 Alkalis, caustic, poisoning by, 78 



detection of, 298 

 Alkaloids, reactions of, 294, 296 



separation of, 288 

 AlliuTn sativum, 189 

 Alsike clover, poisoning by, 202 

 Amaryllidacece, 147 

 Ammonia, chemical diagnosis of, 77 



effects of, 74 



poisoning, post-mortem, 77 

 symptoms of, 76 

 treatment of, 77 



preparations, 74 



toxic doses of, 74 

 Anagallis arveiisis, 230 



Analysis, apparatus for, 277 



preliminary observations in, 275 



qualitative, 278 



quantitative, 278 



toxicologieal, 275 

 Andromed-tooxin, 227 

 Anemcme, 183 

 Anemonin, 184 

 Antidotes, 25 

 Antimonial poisoning, treatment of, 



46 

 Antimony, 44 * 



action of, 45 



black sulphide of, 44 



chemical diagnosis of, 47 



oxide of, 44 



poisoning by, 46 

 Apoq/nacece, 230 

 Apocynin, 230 

 Apocynum species, 230 

 AquiUgia, 184 

 AracecK, 145 

 Aragallus species, 206 

 Araliacece, 220 

 Areiiaria, 192 

 Argyria, 65 

 Aristolochia species, 256 



effects of, 256 

 Aristoloehine, 256 

 Arsenic, absorption of, 36 



chemical diagnosis of, 42 



elimination of, 38 



forms of, 31 



toleration of, 36 



toxic doses of, 38 



toxicity of, 33 

 Arsenical poisoning, chronic, 39 

 diagnosis of, 39 

 medico-legal, 43 

 post-mortem, 41 

 treatment of, 41 

 Arsonious oxide, 32 

 Artemisia ahsvnihiwm,, 127 



maritima, 127 



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