Poisons: Their Effects and Detection, Third Edition (1895)

A Manual for the Use of Analytical Chemists and Experts

This edition features
• illustrations
• a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index

CONTENTS
PART I.
I. THE OLD POISON-LORE.
II. GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE MODERN METHODS OF CHEMICALLY DETECTING POISONS.

PART II.
I. DEFINITION OF POISON.
II. CLASSIFICATION OF POISONS.
III. STATISTICS.
IV. THE CONNECTION BETWEEN TOXIC ACTION AND CHEMICAL COMPOSITION.
V. LIFE TESTS: OR THE IDENTIFICATION OF POISON BY EXPERIMENTS ON ANIMALS.
VI. GENERAL METHOD OF PROCEDURE IN SEARCHING FOR POISON.
VII. THE SPECTROSCOPE AS AN AID TO THE IDENTIFICATION OF CERTAIN POISONS.