Chapter V: Section 4: Treatment 596

Of the Vegetable Substances which contain
Hydrocyanic Acid, 600—Bitter Almond,
601—Cherry-laurel, 605—Peach,
608—Cluster-cherry, 608—Mountain-ash, 608

CHAP. XXX. Carbazotic Acid 610

CHAP. XXXI. Poisonous Gases 611

What Gases are Poisonous 612

Effects on Man of Nitric Oxide Gas, 615—Chlorine,
616—Ammonia, 617—Hydrochloric Acid,
617—Hydrosulphuric Acid, 617—Carburetted
hydrogen, 622—Carbonic Acid, 624—Carbonic
Oxide, 634—Nitrous Oxide, 635—Cyanogen,
636—Oxygen, 636

CHAP. XXXII. CLASS III. Narcotico-Acrid Poisons 637

CHAP. XXXIII. Nightshade, 639—Thorn-Apple, 644—Tobacco, 647 639

CHAP. XXXIV. Hemlock, 653—Water-hemlock, 657—Hemlock Dropwort,
658—Fool’s Parsley, 661 653

CHAP. XXXV. Monkshood, 662—Black Hellebore, 670 662

CHAP. XXXVI. Squill, 671—White Hellebore and Cevadilla,
672—Meadow-Saffron, 674—Foxglove, 678—Rue,
681—Ipecacuan, 682 671

CHAP. XXXVII. Strychnia, 683—Nux Vomica, 686—St. Ignatius’
Bean, 691—False Angustura, 692 682

CHAP. XXXVIII. Camphor, 694—Cocculus Indicus, 696—Upas Antiar,
698—Coriaria myrtifolia, 698—Yew, 699 694

CHAP. XXXIX. Poisonous Fungi, 700—wholesome and poisonous
kinds, 701—qualities how modified,
701—poisonous principles of, 704—effects on
man, 704—Poisonous Mosses, 710 700

CHAP. XL. Poisonous Grain, 710—Spurred rye, 711—Spurred
maize, 718—rust of wheat, 719—unripe grain,
719—Darnel-grass, 721—Leguminous seeds, 722 710

CHAP. XLI. Alcohol, 725—symptoms in man, 725—morbid
appearances, 731—treatment, 735—ether,
736—Empyreumatic Oils, 736 725

CHAP. XLII. Compound Poisoning 740

INDEX 745

Description of Plate 755,
756

PART FIRST.
OF GENERAL POISONING.

CHAPTER I.
ON THE PHYSIOLOGICAL ACTION OF POISONS.

I shall discuss this subject by considering first the mode in which poisons act, and secondly, the causes by which their action is liable to be modified.