There have been epidemics of poisoning from eating cheese containing tyrotoxicon.
Diagnosis is not always easy, and one has to differentiate poisoning from cerebral apoplexy.
Mussel-poisoning was formerly supposed to be due to the copper in them derived from ships' bottoms, but it is more probably the result of the formation of a toxine during life, and not after decomposition has set in.
A chronic form of poisoning may occur, with symptoms closely resembling those of lead.
Every case of poisoning which occurs in any industry (lead, arsenic, anthrax, etc.
Those of irritant poisoning with corrosion, and staining of a dark brown or yellow colour.
The symptoms, post-mortem appearances, and treatment, of poisoning by nux vomica are the same as for strychnine.
In cases of suspected poisoning have several clean jars into which you place the stomach with contents, intestines with contents, piece of liver, kidney, spleen, etc.
Many diseases, however, come on suddenly, and in cases of slow poisoning the invasion of the symptoms may be gradual.
But what I should like to know is this: What motive could he have for poisoning you, and, presuming that he's the instigator of this crime, who is his accomplice?
When a husband pays more attention to one of his wives than the others they become jealous, and probably set aboutpoisoning her or their lord and master as the simplest way out of the difficulty.
Besides, Tetrik is himself about to die; even his own poisoning proves to a certainty that he is innocent of Victoria's death.
I frankly told him the schemes that Tetrik was hatching; I also expressed to him my suspicions regarding the poisoning of my foster-sister.
He should be shielded from the poisoning effects of tea, coffee, tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs.
Blood poisoning often results from such infections, one of the worst forms being tetanus, or lockjaw.
Anacleto del Rosario, the distinguished Filipino chemist, tells me that he once witnessed a case of poisoning by the fruit of the lumbán, the patient being a native boy.
It counteracts sleep and coma, being very useful in poisoning by opium or its alkaloids.
Waring saw a case of poisoning with the fruit; the patient, a young man, suffered violent vomiting, intense pain in the stomach and head, and marked prostration.
Chronic nicotine poisoningis the result of a gradual intoxication by the absorption of the active principle of tobacco, the alkaloid nicotine.
Inasmuch as we do not observe a very large number of clearly proved cases of acute poisoning by tea, we must conclude that it is characteristically a slow poison, and also that its influence is unlike in different individuals.
This explains why, in acute cases of poisoning by alcohol, the blood is sometimes found quite fluid, at other times firmly coagulated in the vessels.
In late years there have been many cases of poisoning by ice cream, cheese, and milk.
Its complete suppression produces symptoms ofpoisoning analogous to those which follow the stoppage of respiration, and the patient dies, usually in a comatose condition, at the end of ten or twelve days.
There are, again, situations where the filth and debris of sewage exercise a poisoning influence on the surrounding atmosphere.
This yielded tyrotoxicon as before, showing the tenacious vitality of the poison, and also explaining the fact that the precise cause of poisoning is in many cases so difficult to trace.
Frequent instances of hair poisoning have occurred, owing to the common use of such dangerous articles.
Perhaps the Colonel would have preferred that nothing should be said in Heideck's presence about the poisoning attempt.
That increased our suspicion that an attempt at poisoning had been made.
One of these took possession of Orchha by treacherously poisoning its chief.
The symptoms of Calabar bean poisoning have all been stated above.
At this the people saw that he had got the better of them, and determined to turn the tables by poisoning the water with TUBA.
Tuba Fishing Fish are caught on the largest scale by poisoning the water with the juice of the root of the tuba plant.
Hartmann and Madame Damant had, indeed, brought poisoningto a fine art.
And do you really believe that there is much secret poisoning in London at this moment?
The usual effect of alcoholic poisoning is boisterous exaltation of mind, but there is a depressed type of drunkenness which weeps.
In poisoning by alcohol the higher nerve centres are first affected and the {109} lowest last.
Characteristic epileptiform convulsions occur as the result of lead poisoning or from alcohol or syphilis.
Chronic poisoning by alcohol induces hardening and calcification in the walls of the arteries, degeneration of the nerve cells and dendrites, wasting or overgrowth of the heart muscle, and fatty degeneration of the liver and kidneys.
This drug can be withdrawn from a patient more rapidly than is possible in chronic poisoning from morphine, but a relapse is to be expected.
In Germany, Italy, and France the Jews were accused of poisoning the wells and thus causing the plague, and they were slaughtered by thousands.
The first thing to do in a case of poisoning is to cause the ejection of the poison by vomiting.
It describes the symptoms of poisoning and how to proceed in each case.
Poisoning cattle is exercised by them in two ways: by one, they merely cause disease in the animals, with the view of receiving money for curing them upon offering their services.
Had it escaped through Sandy Hook, and come poisoning the waters along shore?
We take the following from Scientific American as worth consideration by the owners of orchards and lawns: A correspondent in Science relates the following rather startling experiment in killing tree scale by poisoning the sap of the tree.
In this case it is interesting to learn that one experimenter fed a large number of sparrows killed by poisoning to a pet cat with no ill effects to the latter.
As the result of a serious case of mushroom poisoningin a mushroom grower's family recently, the mushroom specialists of the U.
This resulted in the first breach between the king and Catherine; the latter at that time perpetrated one of her dastardly deeds by poisoning the mother of the Prince of Navarre—Jeanne d'Albret, her bitter enemy.
Penicillium glaucum has such a strong and definite action on arsenic compounds that he states that there is no doubt of the possibility of poisoning by arsenical gas in a room hung with paper containing arsenic.
While stimulation expresses itself in the ways detailed above poisoning action also makes itself visible to the eye.
The general conclusion arrived at by Hotter was that the effect is not so much that of a general poisoning as of a bleaching of parts of the leaf, mere traces of boron being harmless.
The aerial organs show the effect of arsenical poisoning by intense withering, interrupted by periods of recovery, but eventually followed by death.
On the whole peas are more sensitive to manganese poisoning than is barley, and the higher strengths of manganese prove more deleterious to them.
Maize is evidently far less sensitive to boron poisoning than are peas and oats, for with these one-half the original amount of boron (= 1 gm.
The effect of the boron poisoning is again evident in the dying off of the lower leaves, which become flaccid and drooping and finally drop off.
Manganese exerts a toxic influence upon the higher plants, if it is presented in high concentration, but, in the absence of great excess of the manganese compounds, the poisoning effect is overshadowed by a definite stimulation.
More recently a new tinned copper still has been employed with good results, but this is somewhat dangerous for general purposes, as in the event of the tin wearing off in any place, copper poisoning sets in at once.
The imaginary subject of the story obeyed her will, but her will Obeyed the mysterious antenatal poisoning influence.
Death is likely to follow within two days, the result of blood-poisoning and exhaustion.
These signs of localized disease enable a distinction to be made from the coma of narcotic poisoning and alcoholic intoxication.
It was not until the discovery of the germs which cause septic poisoning that deaths from these causes could be checked.
Until the last quarter of a century there was a large addition to the death rate each year from the blood poisoning following operations and injuries making open wounds.
The last letter she penned before the actualpoisoning began was an outburst of love and hysteria.
The police had not been idle during that long remand following the mysterious poisoning of Mrs. Connell.
But her successes were so numerous, that she took to poisoning people as a hobby.
And so, he's all tied up in knots with ptomaine poisoning and I've got to straighten him out.
There's no telling who'll have ptomainepoisoning next.
Why couldn't the silly thing have had a decent bit of ptomaine poisoning instead of this foolish earache.
