A Treatise on Poisons, in Relation to Medical Jurisprudence, Physiology, and the Practice of PhysicAdam & Charles Black, North Bridge, 1836 - 876 pages |
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Page ix
... effects , be- fore they can be safely employed in the treatment of disease ; and this knowledge is particularly called for in regard to those remedies , -probably not few in num- ber , whose therapeutic effects are not developed till ...
... effects , be- fore they can be safely employed in the treatment of disease ; and this knowledge is particularly called for in regard to those remedies , -probably not few in num- ber , whose therapeutic effects are not developed till ...
Page xv
... effects of each poison on animals then come under consideration , and are succinctly stat- ed in an inquiry into its mode of action , as preliminary to the detail of its effects on man . In treating of the Symptoms observed in man , I ...
... effects of each poison on animals then come under consideration , and are succinctly stat- ed in an inquiry into its mode of action , as preliminary to the detail of its effects on man . In treating of the Symptoms observed in man , I ...
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... effects which follow the application of a poison to the body we perceive that they are sometimes confined to the part where it is applied , and at other times ex- tend to distant organs . Hence the action of poisons may be naturally ...
... effects which follow the application of a poison to the body we perceive that they are sometimes confined to the part where it is applied , and at other times ex- tend to distant organs . Hence the action of poisons may be naturally ...
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... effects . Of nervous impressions , without any visible organic change , few well authenticated and unequivocal instances are known . Mr Brodie mentions a good example in the effects of monks- hood on the lips when chewed : it causes a ...
... effects . Of nervous impressions , without any visible organic change , few well authenticated and unequivocal instances are known . Mr Brodie mentions a good example in the effects of monks- hood on the lips when chewed : it causes a ...
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... effects of many poi- sons . In regard to one poison , the prussic or hydrocyanic acid , the existence of such a mode of action is , I apprehend , clearly esta- blished by the amazing rapidity of its effects . Mr Brodie has stated ...
... effects of many poi- sons . In regard to one poison , the prussic or hydrocyanic acid , the existence of such a mode of action is , I apprehend , clearly esta- blished by the amazing rapidity of its effects . Mr Brodie has stated ...
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Page 569 - One or two had cardialgia, nausea, and vomiting ; but these were not general or lasting symptoms. They then complained of a prickly feeling in their hands, heat and constriction of the mouth and throat ; difficulty of swallowing and speaking freely ; numbness about the mouth, gradually extending to the arms, with great debility of the limbs. The degree of muscular debility varied a good deal, but was an invariable symptom. In some it merely prevented them from walking firmly, but in most of them...