Poisons, Their Effects and Detection: A Manual for the Use of Analytical Chemists and ExpertsBlyth, Alexander Wynter
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Poisons, Their Effects and Detection: A Manual for the Use of Analytical Chemists and Experts
Blyth, Alexander Wynter
Poisons
=Fish.=--One part of the acid in 7000 of water kills dace, minnows,
roach, and gold fish. In this amount of dilution the effect is not
apparent immediately; but, at the end of a few hours, the movements of
the fish become sluggish, they frequently rise to the surface to
breathe, and at the end of twenty-four hours are found dead. Quantities
of carbolic acid, such as 1 part in 100,000 of water, appear to affect
the health of fish, and render them more liable to be attacked by the
fungus growth which is so destructive to fish-life in certain years.
=Frogs.=--If ·01 to ·02 grm. of carbolic acid be dissolved in a litre of
water in which a frog is placed, there is almost immediately signs of
uneasiness in the animal, showing that pain from local contact is
experienced; a sleepy condition follows, with exaltation of reflex
sensibility; convulsions succeed, generally, though not always; then
reflex sensibility is diminished, ultimately vanishes, and death occurs;
the muscles and nerves still respond to the electric current, and the
heart beats, but slowly and weakly, for a little after the respiration
has ceased.
§ 222. =Warm-blooded Animals.=--For a rabbit of the average weight of 2
kilos., ·15 grm. is an active dose, and ·3 a lethal dose (that is ·15
per kilo.). The sleepy condition of the frog is not noticed, and the
chief symptoms are clonic convulsions with dilatation of the pupils, the
convulsions passing into death, without a noticeable paralytic stage.
The symptoms observed in poisoned dogs are almost precisely similar, the
dose, according to body-weight, being the same. It has, however, been
noticed that with doses large enough to produce convulsions, a weak
condition has supervened, causing death in several days. There appears
to be no cumulative action, since equal toxic doses can be given to
animals for some time, and the last dose has no greater effect than the
first or intermediate ones. The pathological appearances met with in
animals poisoned by the minimum lethal doses referred to are not
characteristic; but there is a remarkable retardation of putrefaction.
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