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A Mechanical Account of Poisons in Several Essays

Chapter 23: Transcriber’s Note
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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 V.

(152) Virgil Æn. 7. v. 8.

—— Sævamq; exhalat. opaca Mephitim.

Vid. Servium, ibid.

(153) Scaliger. Conject. in Varron.

(154) Lib. 13.

(155) De Situ Orb. l. 1. c. 13.

(156) Ἐιν Ἀρίμοις ὅθι φασὶ Τυφώεος ἔμμθυαι ἐυνάς. Il. Β. v. 783.

(157) Nat. Quæst. l. 6. c. 28.

(158) Nat. Hist. l. 2. c. 93.

(159) L. di Capoa delle Mofet. pag. 37.

(160) Vid. Malpigh. de Pulmon.

(161) Vid. L. di Capoa Mofet. pag. 40.

(162) Pag. 128.

(163) Epidem. l. 2, & 3.

(164) De Temperament. l. 1. c. 4. & Commentar. in Epidem. l. 3.

(165) L. 6. v. 1098.

(166) Histor. Afric. l. 1. c. 1. Vid. Purchas’s Pilgrims, l. 6. c. 1.

(167) Prognostic. 1. & Galen. Comment.

(168) Sect. 3. Aph. 11.

(169) De Febre Malign l. 1. c. 11.

(170) De Aere, Locis, & Aquis.

(171) Φύσιες Νούσων ἰητροἰ. Hippocr. Epid. 6.

(172) Dissertatio de opera quam præstant corpora acida vel alcalica in Curatione Morborum.

(173) De Febrib. Prop. 27.

(174) De Motu Cordis, Prop. 9.

(175) Tumulus Pestis, pag. m. 163, & 172.

(176) Vid. Lister’s Voyage to Paris.

(177) Quis tumidum Guttur miratur in Alpibus. Juvenal Satyr. 13.

(178) Lib. 31. cap. 2.

(179) Metam. lib. 15.

(180) De Therm. lib. 6.

(181) No. 8.

(182) Dr. J. H. Scelera Aquarum: Or, a Supplement to Mr. Graunt on the Bills of Mortality.

(183) Lib. 25. c. 3.

(184) Geogr. lib. 6.

(185) Prorrhet. l. 2. c. 16.

(186) De Aere Aquis & Locis, sub finem.

(187) De Fontib. Med. Angl. P. 2. pag. 75. At fossilia sive Metallica salix aliæ atq; alia sunt, & nobis & pene igni dixeram indomabilia.

(188) Medicin. Static. Sect. 2. Aphor. 6.

(189) Ibid. Sect. 3. Ap. 13. Flatus nil aliud est quam rude perspirabile.

(190) Lib. 31. c. 3. Damnantur imprimis Fontes quorum Aquæ decoctæ crassis obducunt Vasa crustis.

(191) De Aere, Locis, & Aquis.

FINIS.

The Ex­pli­ca­tion of Those Fig­ures which are not Ex­plained in the Trea­tise.

See Larger. Figs. 1–19.

M. Vander Gucht Sculp.

  • FIG. 1. Represents the Head of the Viper in its Natural Bigness, with the Mouth open, and Fangs Erected.

    • (a) Marks the Poisonous Fang.
    • (b) The Eye.
    • (c) The Hole of one Nostril.
    • (d) The Larynx.
    • (e) The Forked Tongue.

All the Other Figures relating to the Viper are drawn larger than the Life.

  • Fig. 7, & 8. Exhibit some Muscles, which serve for the Motion of the Jaws.

    • (a, Fig. 7.) Elevator Maxillæ Inferioris.
    • (b) Depressor ejusdem.
    • (c) Depressor Dentis Venenosi.
    • (d) A Strong Ligament fastened by one Extremity to the Spinal Apophysis of the Second Vertebra of the Neck, and by the other to the end of the Elevator Maxillæ Inferioris.
    • (a, Fig. 8.) A Muscle, which being fixt to the Extremity of both Jaws, serves to pull them backwards, and may be call’d Retractor.
      • (b) The Internal side of the Depressor Dentis Venenosi.
      • (c) Elevator Dentis Venenosi.
      • (d) The Extremity of the Lower Jaw.
      • (e e) Flexores Capitis.
      • (f) The Internal Part of the Skin covered with some Muscular Fibres.
  • Fig. 17. Shews the Head of the Scolopendra.

    • (a a) The Wounding Claws.
    • (b) The Mouth.
    • (c c) The Two First Feet.
  • Fig. 18. The Weapons of the Nhamdu in their Natural Bigness.

Transcriber’s Note

Footnotes were moved to the ends of chapters and renumbered 1–191.

¶ Illustrations (figs. 1–19.) were all printed on one large page. The available image of this page is not very good—in particular, the Figure numbers are not all easy to read. Therefore, the figure numbers have been added in more legible form, in square brackets "[]" to the image. The html edition of this ebook contains a somewhat better image.
¶ I created the cover image and hereby assign it to the public domain.

Original spelling and grammar are generally retained, with a few exceptions noted below.

Page viii. The phrase "Which do no not promise a" was changed to "Which do not promise a".

Page  19. Changed impregdated to impregnated in the phrase “tho’ it be duly impregdated with Salt”.

Page  20. “Strenghning” is retained.

Page  23. “Royal Acamy” is retained.

Page  26n. “Sanie & hnmano Sanguine” to “Sanie & humano Sanguine”.

Page  83. In this discussion, the footnote designators are the original printed ones, which have been changed to numbers in this edition. There were four footnote anchors [a, b, c, c] on the page, which begins with “Nerves, with a great inward”, and four distinct footnotes labeled [a b c c]. The fourth has been herein given its own distinct anchor and label. Then on page 84, which begins “That this Disease is accompany’d with a Delirium”, there were two printed footnote anchors [e, f], and three footnotes [d, e, f]. The footnote originally labeled “d” is herein eliminated from page 84; it said “Vid. Galen. de Theriac. ad Pison, l. 1. cap. 16.”.

Page  94. The third footnote (now numbered 89) originally read approximately thus: “(f) Vid. Aetium. .6: c. 24.” but there is a smudge preceding the “.6:”, possibly a number or some other character.

Page  97. There were three footnotes [f g h] on this page, which begins with “this Spongy Excrescence, if it be”, and only two footnote anchors [g h]. The first footnote (f) is a duplicate of the third and last footnote from page 96, and so has been removed from this edition.

Page 120. Changed Treament to Treatment, in “Symptoms from so severe a Treament”.

Page 122. The phrase “found in Mines of God” is retained, but is perhaps wrong. The first footnote, now labeled 130, beginning “(f) Lib. [smudge]” is partly illegible.

Page 127. Changed “substitued” to “substituted”.