CONTENTS. 
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1. *4 s a Liquid. 
SECTION PAGES 
182. Local Action of Chloroform ....... • 155, 156 
183. Action on the Blood .......... 156 
184. General Effects of the Liquid ........ 156, 157 
185. Fatal Dose ............ 157 
186. Symptoms ............ 157 
187. Post-mortem Appearances ......... 157, 158 
2. The Vapour of Chloroform. 
188. Statistics ........... 
189. Suicidal and Criminal Poisoning by Chloroform .... 
190. Physiological Effects ......... 
191. Symptoms from Vapour and from Liquid ..... 
192. Chronic Poisoning by Chloroform ...... 
193. Post-mortem Appearances . . ..... 
194. Detection of Chloroform—Tests ....... 
195. Distillation of Chloroform—Schmiedeberg’s Method—Quantity 
recovered .......... 
158 
158, 159 
159, 160 
160, 161 
161 
161, 162 
162 
163, 164 
VI. CHLORAL. 
196. Chloral Hydrate—Properties—Statistics of Poisoning by—Chloralose 
—Chloralamid—Dormiol ........ 164, 165 
197. Detection of Chloral .......... 165 
198. Assay of Chloral. .......... 165, 166 
199. Effects of Chloral on Animals . . . . . . . 166, 167 
200. Liebreich’s Views on the Action of Chloral. ..... 167 
201. Effects of Chloral on Man ......... 167 
202. Fatal Dose.167, 168 
203. Symptoms ............ 168, 169 
204. Treatment of Chloral Poisoning ........ 169, 170 
205. Chronic Poisoning by Chloral Hydrate . . . . . . 170 
206. Excretion of Chloral . . . . . . . . . .170, 171 
207. Separation of Chloral from Organic Matters . . . . . 171, 172 
208 % Veronal—Properties—Jorissen’s Reaction—Veronal as a Cause of 
Death.172, 173 
VII. MINOR ANESTHETICS AND NARCOTICS. 
209. Action of Chlorine on Methane ........ 173 
210. Pentane—Pental 173 
211. Aldehyde—Metaldehyde ......... 174 
212. Paraldehyde ........... 174 
213. Somoform ............ 174 
214. Sulphones—Sulphonal, Trional, Tetronal—Extraction and Identi¬ 
fication of Sulphones ......... 174, 175 
VIII. BISULPHIDE OF CARBON. 
215. Properties of Carbon Bisulphide. . . . . . . . 175 
216. Poisoning by Carbon Bisulphide—Chronic Forms . . . . 175, 177 
217. Post-mortem Appearances . . . . . . . . . 177 
218. Detection and Separation of Carbon Bisulphide . . . . . 177 
219. Xanthogenic Acid .......... 177 
220* Potassic Xanthogenate . . . . . . . . . 177 
IX. THE TAR ACIDS—PHENOL—CRESOL. 
221. Carbolic Acid (Phenol)—Properties ....... 177, 178 
222. Common Form of Carbolic Acid—Macdougall’s Disinfecting Powder 
—Calvert’s Carbolic Acid Powder—Carbolic Acid Soaps . . . 179 
