INDEX. 
AseUine, 537. 
Asiatic knowledge of poisons, 5. 
Aspergillus and arsenic, 573. 
Atisines, 365. 
Atkinson’s Infant Preserver, 292. 
Atropa belladonna. Botanical characters 
of, 382. 
Atropamine, 403. 
Atropic acid, 387. 
Atropine, Accidental and criminal poison¬ 
ing by, 392-393. 
,, Action on animal life, 393-394. 
,, ,, on the heart, 396-397. 
„ ,, on man, 394-396. 
,, antagonistic to muscarine, 437. 
,, British Pharmacopoeia charac¬ 
ters, 388. 
,, Constitutional formula of, 387. 
,, Determination of, mixed with 
strychnine, 391. 
,, discs, 386. 
,, Fatal dose, 390. 
,, mixed with other alkaloids, 390. 
,, Physiological action of, 396-397. 
,, poisoning, Statistics of, 391- 
392. 
,, Properties of, 387. 
,, salts, Melting-point of, 404. 
,. Separation from organic mat¬ 
ters, 398. 
,, Sublimation of, 263. 
,, Tests for, 389. 
Attalus Phylometer, 6 . 
Bamberger’s acylic and aromatic bases, 
30. 
Banded krait, 511. 
Baptista Porta, 10. 
Bar bitone. See Veronal. 
Barger and Dale on action of adrenalin, 
40-41. 
Barium carbonate, 726. 
,, chloride, 725-726. 
,, Distribution in the body, 729. 
,, Fatal dose, 727-728. 
,, salts, Effect of, 726-727. 
,, ,, Post-mortem appearances 
in poisoning cases, 729. 
,, ,, Symptoms of poisoning by, 
728-729. 
„ Separation of, 729-730. 
,, sulphate, 726. 
,, Tests for, 730. 
Basic method of destroying organic 
matter, 53, 595-596. 
Beans (Phaseolus lunatus), Poisoning by, 
215. 
Bee poison, 500. 
Behrens’ method of identifying alkaloids, 
260. 
Belladonine, 403. 
Belladonna alkaloids, 383. 
,, British Pharmacopoeia me¬ 
thod of estimating total 
alkaloids of, 384-385. 
,, Dry extract of, 385. 
733 
Belladonna, Pharmaceutical preparations, 
384-385. 
,, tincture, 385. 
Benzene, Properties of, and estimation, 
141-142. 
,, vapour, Effects of, 142. 
Benzoline, 139. 
Benzo-nitrile, 225. 
Benzoyl-aconine, 369-370. 
„ chlorine for animal toxines, 517- 
518. 
,, ecgonine, 355. 
,, nitrite, 224. 
Berthelemy d’Anglais, 13. 
Bertrand’s electrolytic apparatus for 
arsenic, 607-608. 
Berzelius’ test for arsenic, 587-588. 
Betaine, 531-532. 
Bibliography, 16-20. 
Bichromate disease, 717-718. 
Bikhaconitine, 365-366. 
Billie Carleton case, 359. 
Binoxalate of potash, 543. 
Bird spider, 498. 
Bishop Stortford cases of food poisoning, 
538. 
Bismuth carbonate, 668. 
,, citrate, 667-668. 
,, Electrolysis of, 672. 
,, Estimation of, 671-672. 
,, lozenges, 667. 
,, Medicinal dose of, 668. 
,, metal, 667. 
,, Micro-chemical test for, 670. 
,, nitrate, 668. 
,, peroxide, 667. 
,, potassic iodide, 251. 
,, salicylate, 668. 
,, subnitrate, 667. 
,, sulphide, 667. 
,, Toxic effects of, 668-669. 
Blair’s gout pills, 433. 
Blood, Action of chloroform on, 156. 
,, ,, of copper on, 156. 
,, Biological test for, 15. 
,, coagulum patterns, 72. 
,, corpuscles, Influence of poisons on, 
43-44. 
,, Drain of corpuscles, 41-42. 
,, in nitro-benzol poisoning, 203. 
,, in sulphuric acid poisoning, 101— 
102 . 
,, Potash and soda salts in, 72. 
,, spectrum, 66-67. 
,, stains, 65. 
Blue pill, 678. 
Boerhaave’s odontalgic essence, 292. 
Boletus satanas, 439. 
Botulism, 539-540. 
Boyle, Robert, 13-14. 
Brieger’s process of separating muscarine, 
438. 
Brighton green, 659. 
Brinvilliers, Marchioness de, 11. 
Bristol Tramways case of horse-poisoning, 
490. 
