A Practical Handbook of Medical Chemistry.Applied to Clinical Research and the Detection of Poisons

Philadelphia: Henry C. Lea's Son & Co., 1880. xii. 310pgs+adv. Very Good cloth hardcover, dark green with gilt lettering to spine. Binding tight, owner name and bookplate on front endpaper, clean and unmarked but for a few scattered checkmarks and an underlined formula in the rear appendix section. Based in part on "Bowman's Medical Chemistry". Black and white illustrations throughout. Contents include: Preface. Introduction.Manipulation: solution, extraction,extracion, filtration, dialysis, evaporation, dessication, incineration; I. Organic Proximate Principles Taking Part in the Animay Economy: [various preparations, detection and analyses of] fatty acids, lactic acid, oxalic acid, succinic acid, benzoic acid, glucose, cholesterol, urea, hippuric and uric acids, xanthine and hypoxanthine, carnine, oxalic acid, creatin and creatiniin, leucine, tyrosine, neurine or choline, glycocholic acid, taurocholic acid, lecithine, cystine, albuminoid bodies and substances resembling them, animal pigments; II. Analysis of Secretions, Excretions, etc.: urine, urinary sediments, urinary calculi, blood, serous liquids, pus, extracts of the muscular tissues, juices of glandular organs, bone, teeth and bony structures, saliva, gastric juice, bile, milk, spermatic fluid, excrements, analysis of the ash of animal substances; III. On the Detection of Poisons: Precautions to be taken in chemico-legal investigations, arsenic, antimony, tin, mercury, lead, copper, zinc, detection of acids, hydrocyanic acid, phosphorous, alkaloids -(onine, nicotine, morphine), detection of alcohol in organic mixtures, chemical examination for the detection of a poison the nature of which is unknown (volatile poisons, alkaloids, metallic poisons); Appendix: volumetric analysis, preparation of normal solutions, estimations of carbonic acid gas, ammonia, combined acid in neutral salt, standard solutions, weights and measures. AT the end of the contents are catalogs of medicine and chemistry by the publisher. #2554. . No Additional or Previous Printings. Cloth Hardcover. Very Good. Small 8vo. 7.75 Inches Tall.