Directions for the treatment of persons who have taken poison, and those in a state of apparent death
Subtitle: together with the means of detecting poisons and adulterations in wine; also, of distinguishing real from apparent death
By: by M. P. Orfila ; translated from the French by R. H. Black. With an Appendix, on suspended animation and the means of prevention.
Contributors: Black, Robert H.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Published by Nathaniel G. Maxwell
Published: 1819
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: Poisons; Asphyxia; Death, Apparent
Other titles: Orfila on poison; On poison
Notes: "The translator has occasionally substituted such ... medicines as can be generally procured, and as are approved by the London College of Physicians." -- [Translator's] Pref. He apparently also wrote the "Appendix" (p. [215]-240)

A translation, previously published in London in 1818, of: Secours à donner aux personnes empoisonnées ou asphyxiées (Paris, 1818)

Shaw & Shoemaker, 48991

Marbled covers.

Ex libris bookplate: Ulyssis Chamecin.

Bookplate: Library of Dr. Thomas Harris.

In manuscript at head of title and on front free endpaper: Thos. Harris.

BURNS copy imperfect: p. 197-198 mutilated; p. 199-200 detached.