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POISONS : THEIR EFFECTS AND DETECTION. 
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223. Uses of Carbolic Acid .......... 
224. Statistics of Carbolic Acid Poisoning ....... 
225. Fatal Dose............ 
22(3. Effect on Animals—Infusoria—Fish—Frogs ..... 
227. Effect on Warm-blooded Animals ....... 
228. Symptoms in Man—External Application—Illustrative Cases . 
229. Internal Administration ......... 
230. Unusual Symptoms—Rapid Course of Poisoning .... 
231. Changes in the Urine .......... 
232. Action of Carbolic Acid considered physiologically .... 
233. Excretion of Carbolic Acid ........ 
234. Post-mortem Appearances ......... 
Tests for Carbolic Acid. 
235. Pinewood Test—Ammonia and Hypochlorite Test—Action of Ferric 
Chloride—Action of Bromine ........ 
236. Quantitative Estimation of Carbolic Acid ...... 
237. Cresol (Cresylic Acid)—Ortho-, Meta-, and Para-Cresol—Commercial 
Cresol ............ 
238. Creasote ............ 
239. Carbolic Acid in Organic Fluids or the Tissues of the Body 
240. Examination of the Urine for Phenol or Cresol—Separation of Potassic 
Phenyl Sulphate .......... 
241. Assay of Disinfectants, Carbolic Acid Powders, etc.—Koppeschaar’s 
Method—Colorimetric Method of Estimation ..... 
242. Carbolic Acid Powders . . 
243. Carbolic Acid Soap .......... 
X. NITROBENZENE. 
244. Properties of Nitro-Benzene—Commercial Nitro-Benzenes . 
245. Effects of Poisoning by Nitro-Benzene ...... 
246. Effects of the Vapour. ......... 
247. Effects of the Liquid .......... 
248. Fatal Dose ............ 
249. Pathological Appearances ......... 
250. The Essential Action of Nitro-Benzene—Action on the Blood— 
Reduction to Aniline ......... 
251. Detection and Separation of Nitro-Benzene from the Animal Tissues— 
Tests—Distinction between Oil of Almonds and Nitro-Benzene 
XI. DINITRO-BENZOL. 
252. Properties of Dinitro-Benzol ........ 
253. Effects of Dinitro-Benzol—Poisoning in Roburite Factories—Effect 
on the Sight ........... 
254. The Blood in Nitro-Benzol Poisoning ....... 
255. Detection of Dinitro-Benzol ........ 
XII. HYDROCYANIC ACID. 
256. Properties of Hydrocyanic Acid. 
257. Medicinal Preparations of Prussic Acid—Strength of Different Acids 
258. Prussic Acid in the Arts—Distribution in the Animal Kingdom— 
Distribution in the Vegetable Kingdom . . . . . 
259. Amygdalin — Laurocerasin. 
260. Statistics of Poisoning by the Cyanides ...... 
261. Accidental and Criminal Poisoning by Prussic Acid . . . . 
262. Fatal Dose ............ 
263. Action of Hydric and Potassic Cyanides on Living Organisms . 
264. Effect of Prussic Acid on Lower Organisms . . . . . 
265. Symptoms observed in Animals. 
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