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Excerpt from A Manual of Legal Medicine: For the Use of Practitioners and Students of Medicine and Law
Toxicology is that branch of the science of medicine which treats of the nature, properties, and effects of poisons. Its Object is the prevention or cure of all forms Of poisoning. Forensic toxicology refers to the detection Of criminal poisoning.
A poison is a substance which, when applied to the body externally, or introduced into the system either by the mouth, rectum, vagina, skin, lungs, etc., without acting mechanically, but by its own inherent qualities, is capa ble Of altering or destroying some or all Of the functions necessary to life.
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