introduction of poison

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INTRODUCTION OF POISON

Forensic toxicology will be defined because the discipline of studying under a forensic profile the pathologies induced by xenobiotics.

Xenobiotics are poisonous materials, narcotics, abusive drugs, toxic substances, pest control chemicals and chemicals that are used in agriculture, sedating substances and, in element, food items.


DEFINITION OF POISON:

Any substance is harmful to the living organism. consistent with German-Swiss Physician Paracelsus 

Everything is poisoned, there's none that is not a poison, the dose makes it a poison and differentiates it from a drug.

Thus, it's a substance (solid, liquid or gas), introduced or brought into contact with any part, which will produce a pathological state or death.


CLASSIFICATION:

BASED ON-

1.Supported Mode Of Action Of Poisons.

2.Chemical Properties And Method Of Isolation From Tissues And Other Biological Materials.


POISON ALSO CAN BE CLASSIFIED INTO SIX GROUPS:

1. The poisons in gaseous substances- Inhalation of that cause Intoxication. 

Some example is-  The carbon monoxides or the hydrogen sulphides ethylic ethers and chloroform.

2. Poison in an absolutely liquid condition at danger of volatility

E.g.- Benzenes and its by-products, glycol, aldehydes and crucial oils of some trees, etc.

3. Acids and Highly Basic Substances

E.g.- Hydrochloric, sulphuric and nitric acids, sodium or potassium hydrates, etc.

4. Inorganic anions

E.g.- permanganates, chromates.

5. Metals or salts of metals

E.g.- Arsenic, thallium, mercury, lead.

6. some organic/Inorganic compounds of acidic, basic and neutral nature

E.g.- Most drugs of synthesis, alkaloids, narcotic, insecticides, agrochemicals, etc







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