Remarks on medical jurisprudence; intended for the general information of juries and young surgeons / [William Dease].
- William Dease
- Date:
- 1793
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Remarks on medical jurisprudence; intended for the general information of juries and young surgeons / [William Dease]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ *6 ] quantity as to produce fudden death, are fimilar in their effe&s and local appear- ances. I attended two healthy men that were poifoned by drinking claret made up with fugar of lead—-a frequent practice in cor- relating four wine; they both died in the courfe of forty eight hours after; and it was impoffible, either from the fymptoms that preceded death, or the appearances found on difleftion, to determine wThat kind of mineral poiibn had been admmiftered* Vegetable poifons, particularly the laurel, maybe ranked among the moll pow- erful ; their aftion feems more immediately to engage the nervous fyllem, than locally to affeft the llomach; therefore con- vulfions, ep'depfy, apoplexy, and death, foon fucceed: nor can the efFefts, particu- larly of the laurel, be obferved, oninipe£t- Ing the ftomach and alimentary canal. ■ Any opinion founded on the fmell of the contents, or giving them to a dog difguifed in food, I confider of no weight in deciding on lb important a queftion. I will juft re- mark, that where death has in a few hours followed the adminiftration of poifon, if mineral, the excitement is firlt local• foon after the nervous fyllem becomes affefted : if](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20443973_0026.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
