On poisons in relation to medical jurisprudence and medicine . , when administered in powder, infusion, or decoction,Fl°- • ? lil: there are no chemical processes known by which the poison maybe detected. A decoction of thebark forms a clear light-brownliquid, having an acid strikes a dark olive-green colorwith a persalt of iron. Nitricacid renders it lighter. Acetateof lead precipitates it, but the pre-cipitate has none of the proper-ties of meconate of lead. Theleaves of the laburnum are wellknown. An illustration of a leafof its natural size, which is copied from a photograph, i
On poisons in relation to medical jurisprudence and medicine . , when administered in powder, infusion, or decoction,Fl°- • ? lil: there are no chemical processes known by which the poison maybe detected. A decoction of thebark forms a clear light-brownliquid, having an acid strikes a dark olive-green colorwith a persalt of iron. Nitricacid renders it lighter. Acetateof lead precipitates it, but the pre-cipitate has none of the proper-ties of meconate of lead. Theleaves of the laburnum are wellknown. An illustration of a leafof its natural size, which is copied from a photograph, is annexed (). The seeds are somewhat kidney-shaped, slightly hooked at thehilum. They shrink in drying, become dark-colored, and presentirregular depressions on the surface. They have no markings, and arethus easily distinguished from most other poisonous seeds. They arelarger than those of datura stramonium (Fig. 100). Cytisin is said to be the poison contained in an insect-powder, whichis known by the name of Australian or Persian
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