The book A Manual of Medical Jurisprudence And Toxicology was written by author Henry C Henry Cadwalader Chapman Here you can read free online of A Manual of Medical Jurisprudence And Toxicology book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is A Manual of Medical Jurisprudence And Toxicology a good or bad book?
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Apart from trichinosis produced by eating raw pork, the muscular tissue of which is infested with the minute worm, the trichina spiralis, poisonous effects are frequently produced by eating food in a state of putrefaction induced by micro-organisms, bacteria, etc. , or food containing ptomaines or cadaveric alkaloids, so called on account of the manner of their production and of their effects when introduced into the system. The poisonous effects fre- quently produced by eating meat, sausage, c...heese, fish, mussels, and puff paste among vegetable foods, appear to be due to the presence of either micro-organisms or ptomaines. The symptoms and post-mortem appearances in all such cases are those of an irritant poison giddiness, nausea, cramps, vomiting, purging, the mucous membrane of the alimentary canal being found inflamed. As to what par- ticular micro-organism should be attributed the changes developed in food, making it poisonous ; as to the exact nature of the ptomaines which cause poisoning when intro- duced into the system in some persons, but give rise to no inconvenience whatever in others, considerable difference of opinion still prevails among- bacteriologists and toxicolo- MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE AND TOXICOLOGY.
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