 | 1844 - 606 pages
...medicine, it is difficult to give such a definition of a poison as shall be entirely free from objection. Perhaps the most comprehensive definition which can...destroying life without acting mechanically on the system.' Under this definition, it might be objected that the whole class of medicines, and numerous substances... | |
 | Medicine - 1844 - 632 pages
...difficult to gire such a definition of a poison as ¿ball be entirely free from objection. Perhaps the must comprehensive definition which can be suggested is...destroying life without acting mechanically on the system.' Under this definition, it might be objected that the whole class of medicines, and numerous substances... | |
 | Medicine - 1844 - 578 pages
...medicine, it is difficult to give such a definition of a poison as shall be entirely free from objection. Perhaps the most comprehensive definition which can...poison is a substance, which, when taken internally, ft capable of destroying life without acting mechanically on the system.' ' " In all cases of this... | |
 | Alfred Swaine Taylor - Forensic toxicology - 1848 - 734 pages
...medicine, it is difficult to give such a definition of a poison as shall be entirely free from objection. Perhaps the most comprehensive definition which can...acting mechanically on the system." Some substances may, however, act as poisons by absorption when applied to the skin or a wounded surface ; (see CORROSIVE... | |
 | Medicine - 1848 - 790 pages
...comprehend too much or too little, he offers the following, as his view of the nature of a poison. " A poison is a substance which when taken internally,...destroying life without acting mechanically on the system." To Dr. Griffith's definition, he objects, that it includes mechanical irritants, and boiling water... | |
 | Alfred Swaine Taylor - 1853 - 654 pages
...medicine, it is difficult to give such a definition of a poison as shall be entirely free from objection. Perhaps the -most comprehensive definition which can...destroying life without acting mechanically on the system." But it is well known that some substances act as poisons by absorption when applied to the skin of... | |
 | Alfred Swaine Taylor - 1858 - 994 pages
...such a definition of a poison as shall be entirely frce from objection. Perhaps the most comprehensive which can be suggested is this : — " A poison is...substance which, when taken internally, is capable of destroy-' ing life without acting mechanically on the system." But it is well known that some substances... | |
 | Alfred Swaine Taylor - 1861 - 910 pages
...definition of a poison as jtull be entirely free from objection. Perhaps the most comprehensive wfcicb can be suggested is this : "A poison is a substance which, when taken into the stomach or bowels, is capable of destroying life without acini; mechanically on the system."... | |
 | Henry Mudge - Temperance - 1863 - 202 pages
...POISON. — An unexceptionable definition is impossible ; that of Dr. Taylor is, " A substance which taken internally is capable of destroying life without acting mechanically on the system." Dr. Spencer Thomson says: "Poisons are usually classed under the three heads of irritant, narcotic,... | |
 | Spencer Thomson - 1866 - 786 pages
...poisons, it becomes very difficult to frame a correct definition of the term. Mr. Taylor, in his ¡fanual of Jurisprudence, says : " Perhaps the most comprehensive...classed under the three heads of irritant, narcotic, and nareotic acrid poisoris. Of the first, arsenic ¡uid the mineral acids are examples ; of the second,... | |
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A poison is a substance which, when taken internally, is capable of destroying life without acting mechanically on the system. 
