Volume 1

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

  • Mead, Richard, 1673-1754.
Date:
MDCCXLV [1745]
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Credit: A mechanical account of poisons in several essays / By Richard Mead. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to retrench or alter whatever I have judged to be wrong. Dies diem docet. I think truth never comes fo well recommended ^ as from one who owns his error: and it is allowed that our firft matter, Hippocrates, never Ihewed more wiidom and greatnefs of mind, than in confefling his mittake, in taking a FraBure of the Ikull for the natural Suture (<3); and the compliment, which Celfus (h) makes to him on this occafion, is very remarkable and jutt. I might however urge in myex- cule, that as the notions I have re¬ traded regard chiefly the nervous fluid and its properties, fo my new reafonings are founded upon experi¬ ments of eledricity and attradion, applied to this fluid, which at the (a) Epidem. lib. v. § 14. [h] Median, lib. viii* c. 4. timc^