A massive reference for poison center health professionals, hospital emergency-department and critical-care physicians, industrial hygienists, regulatory personnel, and others in the medical or health care industry. Covers the main topics principles of poison management, drugs, the home, chemicals, and natural toxins in each area of the world. Avoids the temptation to extrapolate from animal data to clinical experience, and cites animal studies only to indicate the mechanism of action of toxic effects. First published in 1988 by Elsevier as Medical Toxicology and here both updated and augmented with topics that reviewers, physicians, and students found missing. Includes drawings of toxic plants and eight pages of color photographs of common poisonous snakes from around the world.