Syllabus of the lectures on medical jurisprudence and on the treatment of poisoning & suspended animation : delivered in the University of Virginia / by Professor Dunglison.

  • Dunglison, Robley, 1798-1869.
Date:
1827
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Credit: Syllabus of the lectures on medical jurisprudence and on the treatment of poisoning & suspended animation : delivered in the University of Virginia / by Professor Dunglison. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    metals are in question, the object of search should be to reduce them to an uncombined state. Arsenic. 72. In its metallic state not of much impor- tance—requisite, however, to be able to recog- nise it in this state—Black oxide—remarks— White oxide—arsenioas acid, commonly called arsenic—physical properties—remarks—generally kept in powder when it resembles, in appear- ance, refined sugar and has been mistaken for it as well as mixed with it for criminal purposes- solubility in water. In small quantity, when in- ternally administered, speedily proves fatal. 73. Symptoms—austere taste in the mouth and fauces—fetor of the breath—often with ptyalism— constriction of the pharynx and oesophagus— teeth set on edge—hiccup and nausea, with vom- iting, generally of a brown coloured substance, not unfrequently of blood—great anxiety—heat about the praecordia and syncope—inflammation of the mouth, fauces and oesophagus—painful ir- ritability of the stomach rendering it unable to retain the blandest liquid—stools black, fetid, mixed occasionally with blood—state of the pulse variable, generally frequent, small and ir- regular, but sometimes slow and unequal—palpi- tation of the heart—unquenchable thirst super- venes—the body becomes pungently hot, but sometimes icy cold and respiration difficult—