Clinical Toxicology: Modern Methods in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Poisoning

a treatise on the modern methods in the diagnosis and treatment of poisoning, written in German by Professor Leschke of the Berlin University. Both in India and Europe cases of poisoning, suicidal and homicidal, are on the increase. The ever-increasing use of poisons in industry, the increasing number of suicides and homicides with poisons due to world-wide social, political and economic upheaval which has followed the war, and the use of various poisonous gases in warfare, have lent additional importance to the subject of toxicology during recent years. Though a number of excellent treatises on this subject are available, the present volume justifies its publication as one which deals with the problem of poisons from the point of view of the clinician. The book is divided into two parts. The first part discusses iii detail the signs, symptoms and treatment of poisoning with inorganic substances and the second part deals with poisoning by various organic substances. A chapter on poisoning by food-stuffs and another on the poisonous animals is included. Illustrative cases given along with different poisons increases the value of the book. Further material has also been incorporated in the three appendices, one dealing with the prevention and compensation of industrial poisoning, the second with the detection of poisoning by postmortem examination, and the third gives the English and chemical names for the drugs mentioned in the text under German trade names. The English translation of such an excellent book on toxicology is very welcome. This translation has further been enriched by incorporating, in the body of the original text, a valuable contribution from