A General System Toxicology, Or a Treatise on Poisons

Book excerpt: Excerpt from A General System Toxicology, or a Treatise on Poisons: Found in the Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal Kingdoms, Considered in Their Relations With Physiology, Pathology, and Medical Jurisprudence This part, which has been neglected by all the writers on Toxicology and Medical Jurisprudence, will be laiddown with the greatest care. Among the different charac ters proper for recognizing these substances, those will be selected which are the most constant, and the easiest to ve rify. The precipitates furnished by the mineral poisons, when mixed with the different Chemical Agents, will be particularly attended to: their colour, their nature, an'd'the mode of analysing them, will be explained. The theory of the formation Of those precipitates, being alone able to eu lighten the Juridical Physician on the poison he is desirous of being acquainted with, care will be taken to explain it after having laid down the phenomena which they present; by this means, the person called on to decide, far from proceeding empirically, will judge always with a know ledge Of the cause, and thus arrive at sure results. The bo-i tanical and zoological characters of the different vegetable and animal poisons, will be laid down according to the principles Of the two Sciences to which they belong. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.