OVERBURY, Sir T. murder of, II. 130—137—222—331
OXALIC acid, II. 315 fatal mistakes of, 141—II. 315 poisoning by, II. 316 tests of, _ib._ antidotes to, _ib._
OXYGEN, requisite for respiration, II. 34 consumption of, increased by action, II. 34—39 death, by air deprived of, II. 42
OXYGENIZED blood, necessary to life, II. 20
PARTURITION, 241 questions on, 241 during insensibility, 243 recent, signs of, 251 difficulty of determining, 258 diseases resembling, 254
PENIS, malformation of, 203 excessive, 204 diminutive, 201 mutilated, 205 paralysis of, 205
PERFORATIONS, gastric, II. 164—III. 62 in the stomach, II. 164 appearance of, II. 175 not always a sign of poison, II. 175
PHOSPHATES distinguished from arsenic, II. 241
PHOSPHORUS, II. 202—333 poisoning by, II. 333
PHYSICIAN, profession of, 1 College of, founded, 6 powers of, 23 charter confirmed, 13 College of how to sue, 28 classes of, 52
PLAGUE, regulations in time of, 86 contagion of, 95 definition of, 108 authorities on, 108—111—112 contagious, 109 Dr. Maclean on, 110 at Marseilles, _ib._ Messina, _ib._ ancient authorities on, 111 report of the College on, 113—Appx. 185 in London, 121 source of the, 127 at Malta, 1813, 130 police, 104
POISONS generally, II. 131 classification of, 199—207 slow, II. 132—143—149—355 vegetable, II. 138—182—366 narcotic, II. 141—154—161—200—203—381 consecutive, II. 147—149 accumulative, II. 148—149—260—355 absolute, II. 150 relative, II. _ib._ corrosive, II. 154—200—201 astringent, II. 200—202—336 animal, II. 440 septic, II. 200—204—_ib._ aerial, II. 204—456 acrid, II. 200—202—371 mineral, II. 209 mechanical, II. 334 narcotico-acrid, II. 200—203—205 absorption of, II. 208 external application of, II. _ib._ effect of on animals, II. 193 of the toad, II. 139 of the lepus marinus, II. 141 of acrid bile, II. 158 of fishes, II. 204 of vipers, II. 442
POISONING, murder by, II. 128 antiquity of, II. 132—138 fables of, II. 136 evidence of, II. 153 questions on, II. 154 by arsenic, II. 216 sublimate, II. 259 antimony, II. 270 copper, II. 291 muriate of tin, II. 295 sulphate of zinc, II. 297 nitrate of silver, II. — concentrated acids, II. 301 sulphuric acid, II. 303 oxalic acid, II. 316 potass, II. 202—320—322 soda, II. 323 ammonia, II. 324 lime, II. 325 baryta, II. 327 phosphorus, II. 333 lead, II. 353 white hellebore, II. 373 black hellebore, II. 374 fœtid hellebore, II. 375 elaterium, II. 376 colocynth, II. 377 euphorbium, II. 378 savine, II. 378 aconite, II. 380 nitre, II. 381 opium, II. 388 henbane, II. 395 prussic acid, II. 398 nightshade, II. 411 stramonium, II. 414 tobacco, II. 418 hemlock, II. 421 nux vomica, II. 422 mushrooms, II. 428 alcohol, II. 436 fish, II. 451