Excerpt from Manual of Toxicology: Including the Consideration of the Nature, Properties, Effects, and Means of Detection of Poisons, More Especially in Their Medico-Legal Relations

A new work on Toxicology will doubtless be regarded by some as uncalled for, since there already exist so many excellent treatises on this subject, both in our own and in foreign languages. This objection, however, might be equally urged against new publications in almost every department of science: there is scarcely one of which it may not be affirmed that its literature is already abundantly supplied. Yet this does not deter new authors from venturing before the public, prompted, doubtless, by the desire of offering something of at least a passing value, and of adding, it may be, a fragment to the store of human knowledge.

The author is fully aware that the field of investigation on which he has entered has already been very thoroughly explored by others. Names illustrious in the annals of medical and toxicological science are identified with this subject throughout the civilized world. Yet he ventures to hope that the present treatise will be found a useful textbook, both by the student and the teacher of Toxicology. From an experience of a number of years, he may presume to speak with some authority to the former, as likewise with some degree of confidence to the latter, upon topics with which he is personally familiar. His aim has been to convey his meaning in the simplest style and phraseology, believing this to be the most efficient method of teaching others.

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