A popular treatise on the remedies to be employed in cases of poisoning and apparent death : including the means of detecting poisons, of distinguishing real from apparent death, and of ascertaining the adulteration of wines / by M.P. Orfila ; translated from the French under the inspection of the author, by William Price.

  • Orfila, Matthieu Joseph Bonaventure, 1787-1853.
Date:
1818
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Credit: A popular treatise on the remedies to be employed in cases of poisoning and apparent death : including the means of detecting poisons, of distinguishing real from apparent death, and of ascertaining the adulteration of wines / by M.P. Orfila ; translated from the French under the inspection of the author, by William Price. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    signs of life; to the characters which dis- tinguish real from apparent death; to burns; and to the adulteration of wines. The utility of such a work appears to us so evident, that it is unnecessary to dwell upon the subject. We will only say that M. Orfila has been particular in de- scribing with the utmost precision, the dis- eases of which he has treated, and the means which he has employed to remove them. Rejecting all technical terms for others more generally known, and omit- ting all theory, he wishes that Ins work should be regarded as a collection contain- ing only the precepts to be followed in the cure of persons poisoned, or in cases of asphyxia. We shall dispense with making known the method adopted by the author to accomplish this end, the treatment which he employs being nearly similar to that which he advises in his treatise on General Toxicology; a work which has justified the opinion the Institute had formed of it, since t.