Volume 3
A mechanical account of poisons in several essays / By Richard Mead.
- Mead, Richard, 1673-1754.
- Date:
- MDCCXLV [1745]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A mechanical account of poisons in several essays / By Richard Mead. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[xxi ] INTRODUCTION* Those things, which are experienced to be in their whole nature, or in their moft remarkable properties, fo con- trary to the animal life, as in a fmall quantity to prove deftruftive to it, are called Poifons : whether they are hurtful by being taken inwardly at the mouth, or com¬ municated to the body externally by a wound. This fubje£l has afforded matter for great difputes among philofo- phers, in their inquiries into the frame of the world. Some have made it an objedion to the goodnefs of](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30522572_0003_0027.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
