Orfila MP. 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, 1818.

Catalog Record: Orfila MP. 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, 1818.

Title: A practical treatise on poisons and asphyxies, adapted to general use : followed by directions for the treatment of burns and for the distinction of real from apparent death / by M.P. Orfila ; translated from the French, with notes and additions, by J.G. Stevenson, M.D. ; with an appendix …

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Author: Orfila, Mathieu Joseph Bonaventure.

WLM Call Number: WO 250 O67 1826 RB

Accession NO.: 2024

Publisher: Boston : Hilliard, Gray, Little and Wilkins, 1826.

Physical Description: xii, 240 p. ; 19 cm.

Subject: Accidents.
Subject: Poisons.
Subject: Asphyxia.
Subject: Asphyxia – pathology.

Type of Trace: Translation Of
Title: Secours à donner aux personnes empoisonnées ou asphyxiées.

Abstract: The author describes the physiological effects of poisoning and
accidents, the identification of poisons, and remedies for preventing
and counteracting injury and disease.

General Notes: Digitized by Northern Micrographics June 22, 2010.

General Notes: This translation is based upon the third French edition published in
Paris in 1825.