This course introduces basic principle and methods of toxicological analysis. It is designed to provide the characteristics of toxicological analysis, the procedure, a survey of analytical method. It also includes volatile poison, nonvolatile poison, pesticide, rodenticide and mental poison and so on. It also deals with their detection and determination by chemical reaction, spectrophotometry and chromatography. It also includes how to precede poisoning case, collect samples and scientifically assay the results.
Teaching includes lectures, laboratory sessions, and experimental analysis demonstration.
Apart from the core curriculum, there are selective courses in pharmaceutical analysis, equipment analysis and forensic toxicology. This course is based on Pathology and designed specially for the students who major in the Forensic Medicine. It includes the examination of cadaver at the scene of death, the investigation of death and post-mortem changes, the determination of the time since death,the mechanical injury and its identification, the differentiation of trauma and disease, asphyxia, burns and scalds, electrical fatalities, and sudden death. The teachings include lectures, laboratory demonstrations and the performs of autopsy with video materials. This course is designed with principles and method of toxicology to study and dissolve the problem of poisons concerned with legal events.