Duties of the medical practitioner, 19 Eating of arsenic, 67 opium, 96 Effects of poisons, 15 Elaterium, 57 Emetics, 25 Ergot of rye, 137 Essence of bitter almonds, 124 mirbane, 109 Essential salt of lemons, 43 Ether, 106 Euphorbium, 57 Fish, poisonous, 58 Fool’s parsley, 132 Foxglove, 129 Fungi, 111 Gamboge, 57 Garden-nightshade, 115 Gaseous test for arsenic, 74 Gases, irritant, 59 Goulard’s extract, 87 Green vitrol, 56 Hartshorn, 49 Hellebore, black, 92 Hemlock, 132 Hemlock, water-dropwort, 132 Henbane, 112 Hierapicra, 51 Hocussing, 115 Holloway’s pills, 57 Hydrochlorate of morphia, 97 Hydrochloric acid, 39 Hydrocyanic acid, 123 Hydrogen, carburetted, 136 sulphuretted, 136 Hydrophobia, 142 Hyoscyamus niger, 112 Indian tobacco, 133 Indigo, sulphate of, 40 Investigation of cases, 19 Iodide of potassium, 63 Iodine, 61 Iodism, 62 Iron, sulphate of, 56 Irritant gases, 59 poisons, 34 Jalap, 57 Ketchup, 111 Laburnum, 92 Laudanum, 95 Laurel water, 124 Lead and its preparations, 85 palsy, 88 Lemons, essential salt of, 43 Levant nut, 110 Lime, 53 Liquid mercury, 81 tests for arsenic, 74 Liquor ammoniæ, 48 potassæ, 48 Lobelia inflata, 133 Local action of poisons, 15 Lolium temulentum, 110 Lunar caustic, 56 Magistery of bismuth, 56 Marsh’s test for arsenic, 75 Meadow saffron, 133 Meats, poisonous, 58 Meconic acid, 101 Medical witness, the duty of, 19 Medico-legal reports, 21 Menispermum cocculus, 110 Mercurial paralysis, 83 Mercury and its compounds, 81 Mesereon, 57 Metallic antimony, 78 arsenic, 66 lead, 85 Metals, compounds of the, 66 Mineral acids, 36 green, 67 Mirbane, essence of, 109 Mixed acids, 41 Monkshood, 122 Morphia, 97 Morrison’s pills, 57 Muriatic acid, 39 Mushrooms, 111 Mussels, 58 Narcotic poisons, 95 Nicotiana tabacum, 131 Nicotin, 131 Nightshade, 115 Nitrate of bismuth, 56 potash, 52 silver, 56 mercury, 85 Nitre, 52 Nitric acid, 38 Nitro-benzole, 109 Nitro-muriatic acid, 40 Nitro-sulphuric acid, 40 Nitrous-oxide gas, 107 Nux-vomica, 117 Œnanthe crocata, 132 Œsophagus, stricture of the, 41 Oil of bitter almonds, 124 vitrol, 36 Opium, 95 Opium-eating, 96 Orpiment, 67 Oxalate of lime, 43 Oxalic acid, 43 Oxalis acetosella, 43 Oxides of lead, 87 Painter’s colic, 87 Paralysis from lead, 86 mercury, 83 Pearlash, 48 Phellandrinum aquaticum, 132 Phosphorus, 63 Picrotoxine, 110 Poison, definition of a, 13 Poisoning, diagnosis of, 19 treatment of, 27 Poison of vipers, 140 Poisonous confectionery, 67 fungi, 111 Poisons, absorption of, 14 classification of, 32 mode of action of, 14 sympathetic action of, 17