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A Mechanical Account of Poisons in Several Essays

Chapter 15: Footnotes to Essay III.
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A series of essays investigates toxic agents by combining natural history, dissection, and experiment to explain how poisons act on the body. Several pieces focus on venomous animals, presenting anatomical observations and practical tests of venom delivery and effects, while others analyze poisonous minerals and plants, the pharmacology of opium, and noxious exhalations from earth, air, and water. The author links observed symptoms to physiological mechanisms and argues for mechanical and mathematical reasoning in medical explanation. Practical implications for diagnosis and treatment are suggested through close attention to bodily structure, fluid motions, and the physical properties of toxic substances.

Footnotes to Essay III.

(110) Ποικίλα μὲν γὰρ τὰ δηλητήρια φάρμακα, κοιναὶ δὲ καὶ οὐ πολλαὶ ἐξ ἀυτῶν γινόμεναι διαθέσεις. Alexiph. pag. 399.

(111) Lucret. lib. 5.

(112) Galen. Simp. Medic. l. 3. cap. 18.

(113) Sext. Empiric. Hypoth. Empiric. 1.

(114) Cap. 24.

(115) Wepfer de Cicut. Aquatic. pag. 300.

(116) De Venen. pag. 21.

(117) Can. Medic. l. 4. Fen. 6. Argentum Vivum plurimum qui bibunt non læduntur eo; egreditur enim cum dissositione suâ per inferiorem regionem.

(118) De Morb. Gallic. cap. 76.

(119) De Morb. Gall. inter Autores de Morb. Gall. pag. 599.

(120) Pag. 91. & seq.

(121) Trattato de Fiumi. Cap. 1.

(122) Pag. 93.

(123) Vid. Jaan. Baptist. Montan. Tract. de Morb. Gallic. inter Autor. de Morb. Gall. p. m. 482. Et Fallop. de Morb. Gall. Cap. 76.

(124) Nicol. Mass. de Morb. Gall. Tract. 4. Cap. 2.

(125) Argentum vivum accepi ex Osse Cujusdam corrupto, quem perunctum ab Empyricis plus decies ferebant, non semel emanavisse. Anton. Gall. in Lib. de Ligno Sancto non permiscendo.

Non semel in Sepulchris Argentum Vivum in Mortuorum Capitibus reperi. Anton. Musa Brasavolus in Tract. de Morb. Gallic.

(126) Museum, p. 28.

(127) Agricola de Natura Fossil. p. m. 592.

(128) Idem, Ibid.

(129) Block Scrutinum Arsenici, §. XIV.

(130) Lib. [smudge]. Εννέα γράμματ᾽ ἔχω, τετρασυλλαβός είμι, νόει με. Αἱ τρεῖς αἱ πρῶται δύο γράμματ᾽ ἔχουσιν ἐκάση, Η λοιπὴ δὲ τὰ λοιπὰ, καὶ εἰσὶν ἄφωνα τά πέντε. Τοῦ παντός δ᾽ ἀριθμοῦ ἑκατοντάδες εἰσὶ δὶς ὀκτω, Καὶ τρεῖς τρὶς δεκάδες.

(131) Nat. Hist. l. 33. c. 4.

(132) Cours de Chymie, Part 1. Chap. 10.

(133) Lemery, ibid.

(134) Vid. Eman. Konig Regn. Mineral. and Boyle History of Mineral Waters.

(135) Grew of Mixture, pag. m. 246.

(136) Cicut. aquat. pag. 274. & seq.

(137) Incertezza de Medicament, p. m. 82.

(138) Epistol. 68.

(139) Observation 66.

(140) De Peste, Histor. 99.

(141) De Peste Londinens. p. 239.

(142) A. Deusingius de Peste, Part 4. Sect. 3. c. 3.

(143) Vide Wepfer, Pag. 60.

(144) Observat. Centur. 1. Obs. 43.

(145) Pag. 176. seq.

(146) Hist. Plant. l. 9. c. 16.