Volume 1

A mechanical account of poisons in several essays / By Richard Mead.

  • Mead, Richard, 1673-1754.
Date:
1736
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A mechanical account of poisons in several essays / By Richard Mead. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In preparing of our Flefh and Bread, that it may juftly be faid to be the Vehicle of all our Nourifhment •, fo that whenever this happens to put on other Properties than are neceffary to fit it for this Purpofe, it is no wonder if In Its Pafiage thro’ the Body thefe do make fbitabie Imprefiions there. Thus at Paris (0), inhere the Water of the River Seine is fo fall of Stony Cor- pufdes, that even the Pipes thro? which it is carried, in time are incrufted and ftopt up by ^eni, The Inhabitants are more Subject to the Stone in the Bladder than in moft other Cities. The fame I obferved in the Baths of Abano, a few Miles from Padua, to that Degree, that it is necefiary very frequently to clear the Wheel of a Mill driven by the Current of thefe Springs, from the great Quantity of petrify* d Matter with which it is from time to time incumbered. In like manner, let the grofs Particles with which the Water is faturated be of any other Nature, Metallick, Salt's y &c. thefe, according to their various Gravity, the Ca¬ pacity of the Canals, and fuch like Circum- ftances, will, when they come to circulate in the Animal Body, he by the Laws oi Mo- [o] Vid. LifrcrV Vtyage tof aris. non