Ptomaines and leucomaines, or the putrefactive and physiological alkaloids / By Victor C. Vaughan and Frederick G. Novy.

  • Vaughan, Victor C. (Victor Clarence), 1851-1929.
Date:
1888
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Credit: Ptomaines and leucomaines, or the putrefactive and physiological alkaloids / By Victor C. Vaughan and Frederick G. Novy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. PAOE Definition and Historical Sketch of Ptomaines . 13 CHAPTER n. Foods Containing Poisonous Ptomaines: Poisonous Mussel, Poisonous Sausage, Poisonous Ham, Canned Meats and Fruits, Poisonous Claeese, Milk, Ice-cream, and Bread ......... 34 CHAPTER III. The Relation of Ptomaines to Disease. How Germs induce Disease. A Classification of Infectious Diseases: Anthrax, Cholera, Tetanus, Typhoid Fever, Cholera Infantum 86 CHAPTER IV. The Importance of Ptomaines to the Toxicologist. Coniine-like Substances, Nicotine, Strychnine, Morphine, Atropine, Digitaline, Veratrine, Delphinine, Colchicine 110 CHAPTER V. Methods of Extracting Ptomaines. Ptomaines in Re- agents. The Stas-Otto Method, Dragendorff's Method, Brieger's Method, the Methods of Gautier and Etard. Remarks upon the Methods ...... 123