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A Mechanical Account of Poisons in Several Essays

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2. Part 2

And here I must refer to the Treatise of _Bellini de Fermentis_, who has with great Clearness shewn, that there is in all _Fluids_ not only a simple _Contact_ of their Parts, bu...

1. Part 1

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5. Part 5

More difficult and terrifying are the Symptoms from the Bite of a _Mad Dog_, whose Venom has this also surprising in it, that the bad Effects do not appear oftentimes till the C...

4. Part 4

I Join these Two _Poisons_ together, because tho’ they differ very much in their Effects, yet both do agree in this, that they induce a particular _Delirium sui generis_, attend...

9. Part 9

And here I might, by Reflecting on the Use and Necessity of _Respiration_, and the particular manner of performing It, (of which I have hinted something already) and considering...

3. Part 3

To begin therefore with the Head. The _Skull_ (_Fig. 2._) is composed of several Bones, joined together by _Sutures_, as in _Man_, but with this Difference, that the _Os Frontis...

7. Part 7

The Case being thus, one would wonder what should induce Authors to prescribe so Corrosive a Mineral to be worn upon the Pit of the Stomach, as an _Amulet_ against the Plague. T...

6. Part 6

Altho’ there be a great Variety of Internal _Poisons_, as well _Mineral_ as _Vegetable_; yet they do all of ’em seem to agree in their Primary Effects, and Manner of Operation;...

8. Part 8

Thus We have from this Medicine, but in a far more eminent Degree, all those Effects which we observed to follow upon that grateful Sense in the Stomach, which a moderate Fulnes...

10. Part 10

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