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Reports of Trials for Murder by Poisoning;: by Prussic Acid, Strychnia, Antimony, Arsenic, and Aconita. Including the trials of Tawell, W. Palmer, Dove, Madeline Smith, Dr. Pritchard, Smethurst, and Dr. Lamson, with chemical introduction and notes on the poisons usedBrowne, G. Lathom (George Lathom)

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Reports of Trials for Murder by Poisoning;: by Prussic Acid, Strychnia, Antimony, Arsenic, and Aconita. Including the trials of Tawell, W. Palmer, Dove, Madeline Smith, Dr. Pritchard, Smethurst, and Dr. Lamson, with chemical introduction and notes on the poisons used

Name: Reports of Trials for Murder by Poisoning;: by Prussic Acid, Strychnia, Antimony, Arsenic, and Aconita. Including the trials of Tawell, W. Palmer, Dove, Madeline Smith, Dr. Pritchard, Smethurst, and Dr. Lamson, with chemical introduction and notes on the poisons used
Author: Browne, G. Lathom (George Lathom)

Browne, G. Lathom (George Lathom)

Medical jurisprudence -- Great Britain; Poisons; Trials (Murder) -- Great Britain; Trials (Poisoning) -- Great Britain

Summary of symptoms exhibited by various poisons: (1) Sudden
  death—(2) Insensibility—(3) Vomiting—(4) Action on the eye—(5)
  Convulsions—(6) Chronic poisoning. Alkaloids, chemically
  and physiologically—Processes for their detection—Necessity
  for keeping the extracts separate—Dragendorff’s process—Dr.
  Guy’s sublimation process—Effects on animals—Doubtful value
  of this test—Preparation and effects of reagents: (1)
  Mayer’s—(2) Potassium tri-iodide—(3) Sonnenschein’s test—(4)
  Bismuth—(5) Phosphotungstic acid—(6) Picric acid—(7) Animal
  charcoal—(8) Platinic chloride—(9) Tannin or Tannic acid—(10)
  Phospho-antimonic acid—(11) Silico-tungstic acid—(12) Auric,
  palladium and mercuric chlorides—Ptomaines or cadaveric
  alkaloids; difficulties raised by their discovery—Principles to
  be observed in analysing                                             1


  CHAPTER II.

  TRIALS FOR POISONING BY PRUSSIC ACID                                16

  (1) John Tawell (_Slough Case_), March, 1850.

  (2) George Ball (_Lewes Case_), July, 1860.

  (3) Peter Walker (_Egglesham Case_), Dec., 1857.


  CHAPTER III.

  HYDROCYANIC OR PRUSSIC ACID.

  Nature of—Strength of different preparations of, English
  and foreign—Where found—Tests, preliminary: (1) Odour—(2)
  Silver—(3) Prussian blue—(4) Sulphur—(5) Guaiacum—(6)
  Uranium—(7) Picric acid—(8) Cupric sulphate—(9) Cobalt
  chloride—(10) Mercuric oxide—(11) Peroxide of hydrogen—(12)
  Mercurous nitrate. Test apparatus—Salts of hydrocyanic acid:
  (1) Potassium cyanide—(2) Mercuric cyanide—(3) Cyanides of
  the heavy metals—(4) Double cyanides—(5) Sulphocyanides—Oil
  of bitter almonds—Antidotes—Fatal dose—Symptoms—Post-mortem
  appearances—Drops and minims—Period after death at which
  hydrocyanic acid can be discovered—Formic acid to be tested
  for—Processes                                                       55


  CHAPTER IV.

  TRIALS FOR POISONING BY STRYCHNIA                                   84

  (1) William Palmer (_Rugeley Case_), May, 1856.
  (2) William Dove (_Leeds Case_), July, 1856.
  (3) Silas Barlow (_Vauxhall Case_), November, 1876.


  CHAPTER V.

  STRYCHNIA AND BRUCIA.

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Reports of Trials for Murder by Poisoning;: by Prussic Acid, Strychnia, Antimony, Arsenic, and Aconita. Including the trials of Tawell, W. Palmer, Dove, Madeline Smith, Dr. Pritchard, Smethurst, and Dr. Lamson, with chemical introduction and notes on the poisons used

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