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  • 11Alfred Swaine Taylor — (1806, Northfleet, Kent – 1880, London) was an English toxicologist and medical writer, who has been called the father of British forensic medicine [Rosenfeld, Louis, [http://www.clinchem.org/cgi/reprint/31/7/1235 Alfred Swaine Taylor (1806 1880) …

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  • 12strychnine — strychnic, adj. /strik nin, neen, nuyn/, n. 1. Pharm. a colorless, crystalline poison, C21H22N2O2, obtained chiefly by extraction from the seeds of nux vomica, formerly used as a central nervous system stimulant. 2. an Indian tree, Strychnos nux… …

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  • 13History of Medicine —     History of Medicine     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► History of Medicine     The history of medical science, considered as a part of the general history of civilization, should logically begin in Mesopotamia, where tradition and philological… …

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  • 14strychnine — n. Strychnia …

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