CONTENTS. 
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PART VIII.—THE OXALIC ACID GROUP OF POLSONS. 
SECTION PAOES 
714. Distribution of Oxalic Acid in the Vegetable and Animal Kingdoms . 541 
715. Oxalic Acid—Properties and Tests ....... 541,542 
716. Oxalate of Lime .......... 542, 543 
717. Use in the Arts ........... 543 
718. Hydropotassic Oxalate ......... 543 
719. Statistics of Oxalic Acid Poisoning ....... 543 
720. Fatal Dose of Oxalic Acid ......... 543 
721. Effects of Oxalic Acid and Oxalates on Animals .... 543, 544 
722. The Effects of Sodic Oxalate . . . . . . . 544,545 
723. Effects of Vaporised Oxalic Acid' ....... 545 
724. The Effects of Oxalic Acid and Hydropotassic Oxalate on Man . . 545-547 
725. Physiological Action .......... 547 
726. Pathological Changes .......... 548 
727. Pathological Changes produced by Oxalates ..... 548, 549 
728. Pathological Changes produced by the Acid Oxalate of Potash . . 549 
729. Separation of Oxalic Acid from Organic Substances—The Tissues of 
the Body, etc.—Identification of Calcic Oxalate .... 549-551 
730. Oxalate of Lime in the Urine ........ 551, 552 
731. Estimation of Oxalic Acid ......... 552 
Certain Oxalic Bases — Oxahnethylene — Oxalpropylene. 
732. Chloroxalmethyline—Oxalmethyline—Oxalpropylene . . . 553 
PART IX.—INORGANIC POISONS. 
I. Precipitated from a Hydrochloric Acid Solution by Hydric Sulphide 
—Precipitate Yellow or Orange. 
ARSENIC—ANTIMONY—CADMIUM. 
1 . Arsenic. 
733. Properties of Metallic Arsenic ........ 
734. Arsenious Anhydride—Arsenious Acid—White Arsenic—Properties— 
Solubility ........... 
735. Arsine—Arseniuretted Hydrogen ....... 
736. Arsine in the Arts .......... 
737. Effects on Animals and Man of breathing Arsine . 
738. The Sulphides of Arsenic ......... 
739. Orpiment, or Arsenic Trisulphide ....... 
740. Haloid Arsenical Compounds—The Iodide of Arsenic 
741. Arsenic in the Arts .......... 
742. (1) Pharmaceutical, Non-official, and other Preparations of Arsenic ; 
(2) Veterinary Arsenical Medicine ; (3) Rat and Fly Poisons ; 
(4) Quack and other Nostrums; (5) Pigments; (6) External 
Applications of Arsenic for Sheep; (7) Arsenical Soaps; (8) 
Arsenical Compounds used in Pyrotechny ..... 
743. Organic Preparations of Arsenic—Salvarsan—Neo-salvarsan—Galyl— 
Luargol ............ 
744. Law relative to the Sale of Arsenic ....... 
745. Fatal Dose . . . . . . . . . . 
746. Effects of Arsenious Acid on Plants ....... 
747. Effects on Animal Life—Insects—Annelids—Birds—Mammals . 
748. Effects of Arsenious Acid on Man—Arsenic-eaters . . . . 
749. Manner of Introduction of Arsenic ....... 
750. Cases of Poisoning by the External Application of Arsenic—Arsenical 
Violet Powder ......... 
751. Arsenic in Wall-papers ......... 
752. Forms of Arsenical Poisoning—Acute Form . . . . . 
753. The Sub-acute Form .......... 
754. The Nervous Form .......... 
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