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.
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1819
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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. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Baltimore : Published by Nathaniel G. Maxwell, J. Robinson, printer, 1819.

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240 pages : illustrations

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1st American ed.

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Half title: On poison
"The translator has occasionally substituted such ... medicines as can be generally procured, and as are approved by the London College of Physician." - translator's pref. He apparently also wrote the "Appendix" (p. [215]-240)
A translation, previously published in London in 1818, of Secours à donner aux personnes empoisonnées ou asphyxiées (Paris, 1818)

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