Chemistry, Medicine, and Crime: Mateu J.B. Orfila (1787-1853) and His Times.0881352756 Chemistry, medicine, and crime; Mateu J.B. Orfila (1787-1853) and his times. Ed. by Jose Ramon Bertomeu-Sanchez and Agusti Nieto-Galan. Science History Pubns. 2006 306 pages $52.00 Hardcover RA1025 Orfila was one of toxicology's founders and taught and wrote standard texts in his field. He became a celebrity by testifying in famous poisoning trials. These papers drawn from the international meeting sponsored by the Institut Menorqui d'Estudis in March 2004 describe Orfila's world and the effort to reform medical studies in the early nineteenth century, the controversy around medical chemistry and animal experimentation, and the new role of forensics See computer forensics. in law. Topics include Orfila and his biographers, Thenard's lectures on the didactic uses of experiment, Orfila's plant and animal chemistry, Wurtz's tenure after Orfila at the Faculty of Medicine in Paris, European influences and British practice in the toxicology of Robert Christison Sir Robert Christison, 1st Baronet (born July 18, 1797 in Edinburgh; died January 23, 1882) was a Scottish toxicologist and physician. After attending the Royal High School, and graduating at the University of Edinburgh in 1819, he spent a short time in London, studying , Orfila's influence on German toxicology, the Marsh test Marsh test, method for the detection of arsenic, so sensitive that it can be used to detect minute amounts of arsenic in foods (the residue of fruit spray) or in stomach contents. The sample is placed in a flask with arsenic-free zinc and sulfuric acid. for arsenic in criminal poisonings, and the contribution of alkaloids alkaloids, n alkaline phytochemicals that contain nitrogen in a heterocyclic ring structure. They can have powerful pharmacological effects and are more often used in traditional medicine than in herbal treatments. to crime. Science History publications USA is a division of Watson The Division of Watson is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of New South Wales. It is located in the southern suburbs of Sydney, and includes the suburbs of Canterbury, Belmore, Lakemba, Roselands, Kingsgrove and Hurstville. Publishing International. ([c]20062005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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