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A Mechanical Account of Poisons in Several Essays

Chapter 8: Footnotes to Essay I.
By Richard Mead
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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 I.

(1) Lib. 2. Cap. 74.

(2) De Animalib. lib. 17. c. 5.

(3) Bœotic. p. m. 303.

(4) Not. in Alpin. de Plant. Ægypt. Cap. 14.

(5) Purchase’s Pilgrimage, l. 5. c. 12.

(6) Act. Apost. Chap. 28.

(7) Leg. Cornel. Cels. præfat. in Medicin Morbos ait vetustissimis temporib. ad Iram Deorum immortalium relatos esse, & ab iisdem opem posci solitam.

(8) Divinæ Potentiæ Symbolum. Vid. Ezec. Spanhem. De Vsu Numismat. p. m. 125, 126, & 181, & seq;

(9) Saturnal. Lib. 1. c. 20. Ideo Simulachris Eorum (Æsculapii & Salutis) junguntur figuræ Draconum quia præstant ut humana Corpora velut infirmitatis pelle depositâ, ad pristinum revirescant vigorem, ut virescunt Dracones per annos singulos pelle senectutis exutâ.

(10) Osservazioni intorno alle Vipere.

(11) Nouvelles Experiences sur la Vipere.

(12) Philosophical Transactions, Vol. XII. No. 144.

(13) Vid. Fig. 19.

(14) Dissertatio de Opera quam præstant Corpora Acida vel Alcalica in Curatione Morborum.

(15) Vid. Bernoulli de Effervescentia & Fermentatione.

(16) Vid. Redi Lettera sopra alcune oppositioni, &c.

(17) Lib. 3. Cap. 2.

(18) Medicin. Lib. 5. c. 27.

(19) Lucan. Pharsal. 1. 9.

(20) Loc. ante citat.

(21) Vipera Pythia, p. 361.

(22) De Theriac. ad Pison. lib. 1. c. 8. Vid. etiam c. 10.

(23) Nat. Hist. lib. 11. c. 53. Scythæ Sagittas tingunt Viperinâ Sanie & humano Sanguine; irremediabile id Scelus.

(24) De Mirabilibus.

(25) Bontii Histor. Ind. lib. 5. c. 5.

(26) Usefulness of Experimental Philosophy, Part 2. p. 50.

(27) p. m. 66.

(28) Esperienze intorno a diverse Cose Naturali.

(29) Dissert. de Tarantula Histor. 5

(30) Pag. 88.

(31) Lib. 30. c. 13.

(32) De Abstinent. ab animal. lib. 1. p. m. 16.

(33) De simpl. Medit. Facult. lib. 11. c. 1.

(34) Curat. Diuturn. lib. 2. c. 13.

(35) Vid. Purchas. Pilgrims, Part 2. l. 7. c. 9.

(36) Voyages, Vol. 2. Part 1. p. 53.

(37) De Theriac. ad Pison. Cap. 12.

(38) Philos. Transact. No. 271.

(39) Nat. Hist. lib. 5. cap. 10.

(40) Vid. Fig. 18.

(41) Hist. Ind. p. m. 56.

(42) Vid. Fig. 17.

(43) Histor. Afric. lib. 6.

(44) Hist. Insect. p. 147.

(45) Generazione degli Inserti, p. 15.

(46) Micrograph. Observ. 34.

(47) Ibid. Obs. 25.