Medical witnesses, 193, 195 action of, upon children and adults, chemical examination of, 277 in general, 273 lethal dose of, 276 poisoning by, common sources of, 273 symptoms of acute, 274 preparations of, 273 Methyl alcohol, action of, 297 lethal dose of, 297 poisoning by, postmortem appear- symptoms of acute, 296 subacute, 296 treatment of, 297 properties of, 296 Morphin, 343 treatment, 284 Potassium sulphate, in general, 283 caused by drugs, 146 evidence of, 148 duration of normal, 138 legal limits of gestation, 138 signs of recent child birth in, 141 postmortem appearances in, 371 cause of discoloration in, 16 order in which organs undergo, 18 poisoning by, postmortem appear- symptoms of, 328 Seminal stains, 390 tests for, 390 Sex, 33 of skeleton, 36 male and female characteristics, Sexual disability in the female, 161 lethal dose of, 282 poisoning by, cases of, 282 postmortem 282 appearances treatment of, 282 tests for, 282 in, Sodium, potassium, and ammonium salts, action of, in general, 283 effect of upon animals, 283 Strammonium, 366 Strophanthus, action of, 329 isolation of, 329 occurrence of, 329 poisoning by, symptoms of, 329 tests for, 329 Strychnin, action of, 361 as a convulsive poison, 359 as compared with tetanic con- detection of, 360 isolation of, brucin and, 363 occurrence of, 358 |