Treatise on Poisons / In relation to medical jurisprudence, physiology, and the practice of physic

by Sir Robert Christison

[35]. Edin. Med. and Surg. Journal, liii. 35.

[36]. Ed. Med. and Surg. Journal, lvi. 412.

[37]. Philosophical Transactions, 1841, p. 186. When death begins with any other organ but the heart, the heart remains irritable for some time after, and contains black blood in all its cavities.

[38]. Ib. p. 196.

[39]. Diss. Inaug. de Venenis Mineralibus. Edinburgi, 1813.

[40]. Edin. Med. and Surg. Journal, xix. passim.

[41]. Edin. Med. and Surg. Journal, li. 330; liv. 339; lvi. 104. The Hæmadynamometer is an instrument invented by M. Poiseulle, which, when communicating with the interior of a blood-vessel, indicates the force of the circulation by the pressure of the blood on a column of mercury.

[42]. Mémoire sur l’Emétique—Bulletins de la Société Philomatique, 1812–13, p. 361.

[43]. Orfila, Toxicologie Générale, i. 258.

[44]. Edin. Med. and Surg. Journal, lvi. 104, and other papers there quoted above.