Legal Chemistry / A Guide to the Detection of Poisons, Examination of Tea, Stains, Etc., as Applied to Chemical Jurisprudence

Alfred Naquet

PREFACE.

CONTENTS.

I. METHODS OF DESTRUCTION OF THE ORGANIC SUBSTANCES. BY MEANS OF NITRIC ACID.

II. DETECTION OF POISONS, THE PRESENCE OF WHICH IS SUSPECTED. DETECTION OF ARSENIC.

III. METHODS TO BE EMPLOYED, WHEN NO CLEW TO THE NATURE OF THE POISON PRESENT CAN BE OBTAINED.

IV. MISCELLANEOUS EXAMINATIONS. DETERMINATION OF THE NATURE AND COLOR OF THE HAIR AND BEARD.

APPENDIX.

INDEX.

Footnotes

A GUIDE
TO THE
DETECTION OF POISONS, EXAMINATION OF TEA, STAINS, ETC.,
AS APPLIED TO
CHEMICAL JURISPRUDENCE.

TRANSLATED WITH ADDITIONS FROM THE FRENCH OF
A. NAQUET,
Professor to the Faculty of Medicine of Paris.
BY
J. P. BATTERSHALL, Nat. Sc. D., F.C.S.

SECOND EDITION, REVISED, WITH ADDITIONS.

NEW YORK: D. VAN NOSTRAND, Publisher, 23 Murray Street and 27 Warren Street.

1884.

Transcriber's Note: Obvious printer errors have been corrected. A list of all other changes can be found at the end of the document. In the Appendix of the book, only the most obvious errors of punctuation were remedied.
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