Directions for the treatment of persons who have taken poison : and those in a state of apparent death; together with the means of detecting poisons and adulterations in wine; also, of distinguishing real from apparent death / ... Translated from the French by R. H. Black ... With an Appendix, on suspended animation and the means of prevention.

  • Orfila, Matthieu Joseph Bonaventure, 1787-1853.
Date:
1819
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Credit: Directions for the treatment of persons who have taken poison : and those in a state of apparent death; together with the means of detecting poisons and adulterations in wine; also, of distinguishing real from apparent death / ... Translated from the French by R. H. Black ... With an Appendix, on suspended animation and the means of prevention. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    the London College of Physicians. Such substitutions, and an occasional condensa- tion of matter, are the only points in which the Translator has taken the liberty of deviating from the original work. In the elucidation of some practices which were peculiar to the French school of medicine, the Translator has been kind- ly assisted by some eminent French phy- sicians, under whom he has lately been studying; and whom he begs to accept of his warmest acknowledgements.