. The Alumni journal. College of Pharmacy of the City of New York; Pharmacology. PUBLISHED BY THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE COLLEGE OF PHARMACY OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK Vol. II. New York, June, 1895. No. 6. AN HISTORICAL SKETCH OF POISONS. LIBS By CHARLES E. PEIXEW, E. M., Demonstrator of Physics and Chemistry in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, and Honorary Assistant in Chemistry in the School of Mines, Columbia College. PART SECOND. Thus far, it will be noticed, we have dealt only with the various vegetable poisons. The mineral poisons are first mentioned by Dioscorides Pedan
. The Alumni journal. College of Pharmacy of the City of New York; Pharmacology. PUBLISHED BY THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE COLLEGE OF PHARMACY OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK Vol. II. New York, June, 1895. No. 6. AN HISTORICAL SKETCH OF POISONS. LIBS By CHARLES E. PEIXEW, E. M., Demonstrator of Physics and Chemistry in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, and Honorary Assistant in Chemistry in the School of Mines, Columbia College. PART SECOND. Thus far, it will be noticed, we have dealt only with the various vegetable poisons. The mineral poisons are first mentioned by Dioscorides Pedanius, a famous physician of Cilicia, who publish- ed a great work on materia medica, and another one on poisons, about the begin- ning of the second century, A. D. In these works he discusses the properties of aconite, hyoscyamus, conium, hellebore, and many other plants in common use; and he mentions opium in some detail under the name meconium. He describes certain poisonous fungi, tells of the irritant effect of cantharides and other poisonous insects, the use of 'barbarian arrow poison' and the like. And then lie gives some details of the effects of gyp- siutn, litharge, burnt and slacked lime and of 'Arsenikon.' The latter, also called Sandarack, evidently refers to the sulphide of Arsenic, afterwards named auri pigmentum, orpiment, for its fine yellow color, and still an article of com- merce. He describes it as a golden miner- al,coming from Mysia or Pontus,"making sores, burning violently, eating away the ; In the book on poisons he states that when taken internally, it "gives violent pains in the stomach and intes- tines, corroding them fiercely," and he recommends milk,decoction of linseed,the juice of the mallow, etc.,as antidotes, "to mitigate the burning and produce smooth and easy ; After this substance was known it was but a short step to discover the white or common arsenic, 'Arsenicum sublima- tum' of the early chemist
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