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POISONS : THEIR EFFECTS AND DETECTION. 
SECTION PAGES 
755. Absence of Symptoms ......... 577 
750. Slow Poisoning ........... 577 
757. The Maybrick Case. 577-579 
758. Poisoning by Arsenical Beer ........ 579, 580 
759. Post-mortem Appearances in Animals ...... 580, 581 
760. Post-mortem Appearances in Man ....... 581-583 
761. Changes in the Stomach—Liver—Kidneys—Tongue .... 583,584 
762. Physiological Action of Arsenic ........ 584, 585 
763. Elimination of Arsenic ......... 585 
764. Elimination of Organic Arsenic Compounds ..... 585, 586 
7 65. Antidote and Treatment . ... . . . . . . 586 
766. Is Arsenic a Normal Constituent of the Body ? . . . . . 586, 587 
767. Detection of Arsenic—Sublimation of Arsenic—Berzelius’ Test—Pro¬ 
duction of Kakodyl—Arsenic in Solution ..... 587, 588 
768. The Gutzeit Quantitative Test for Arsenic as laid down in the British 
Pharmacopoeia, 1914—Marsh’s Original Test for Arsenic—Purifica¬ 
tion of Materials used—Ling and Rendle’s Method for freeing 
Hydrochloric Acid from Arsenic—Thorne and Jeffer’s Method— 
Distinction between Arsenic and Antimony Mirrors—Reinsch’s Test 589-595 
769. Arsenic in Glycerin .......... 595 
770. Detection of Arsenic in Organic Matters and in Organo-Arsenical 
Compounds—Basic Methods—Fusion with Sodium Peroxide— 
Norton and Koch’s Method—Oxidation with Permanganate—Dis¬ 
tillation Processes .......... 595-598 
771. Distribution of Arsenic in the Body ....... 598-600 
772. Imbibition of Arsenic after Death ....... 600-603 
773. Analysis of Wall-papers for Arsenic ....... 603 
774. Estimation of Arsenic ......... 603,604 
775. Electrolytic Methods .......... 604-606 
776. Gautier’s Process—Bertrand’s Process ...... 606-608 
777. Precipitation as Tersulphide— (a) Oxidation of the Sulphide and Preci¬ 
pitation as Ammonia-Magnesian Arseniate ; ( b ) Conversion of the 
Trisulphide of Arsenic into the Arseno-Molybdate of Ammonia ; 
(c) Conversion of the Sulphide into Metallic Arsenic . . . 608-613 
2 . Antimony. 
778. Metallic Antimony .......... 613 
779. Antimonious Sulphide ......... 613,614 
780. Tart rated Antimony . . . . . . . . . . 614 
781. Metantimonic Acid .......... 614 
782. Pharmaceutical, Veterinary, and Quack Preparations of Antimony— 
(1) Pharmaceutical Preparations: (a) Official^ (b) Non-official— 
(2) Patent and Quack Pills—(3) Antimonial Medicines, chiefly 
Veterinary ........... 615-618 
783. Alloys ........ ... 618 
784. Pigments ...... ..... 618 
785. Dose . 618 
786. Effects of Tartar Emetic and of Antimony Oxide on Animals . . 618,619 
787. Effects of Tartar Emetic on Man ....... 620 
788. Chronic Antimonial Poisoning ........ 621 
789. The Chapman Case . . . . . . . . . .621,622 
790. Post-mortem Appearances ......... 622,623 
791. Elimination of Antimony ......... 623,624 
792. Antidotes for Tartar Emetic ........ 624 
793. Effects of Chloride or Butter of Antimony ...... 624, 625 
794. Detection of Antimony in Organic Matters—Separation and Identifi¬ 
cation of the Sulphides : (a) Dry Method ; ( b ) Wet Processes— 
Hyposulphite Method—Tartaric Acid Method—Sodium Peroxide 
Method—Separation of Antimony and Tin by Distillation—Anti¬ 
mony in the Urine .......... 625-629 
795. Stibine ............ 629 
796. Quantitative Estimation. 629 
