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

  • Richard Mead
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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    [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 deftrudive 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 fubjedl has afforded matter for great difputes among philofo- phers, in their inquiries into the frame of the world. Some have made it an objection to the goodnefs of
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