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

  • Mead, Richard, 1673-1754.
Date:
1702
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A mechanical account of poisons in several essays / By Richard Mead. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    / \ *N7 ‘The Mad Dog* gi td by Galen (£), Garlicky Agrimony, , lapatbum, and many others, of which a Catalogue may be feen in S. Aidoynus. So the Alyjfum or Madwort celebrated for this ufe by the Ancient Phylicians, as well that defcribed by Biofcorides, which is a Species of Leucoium, as the other of Galen, which is a Marrubium, is very manifeftly a Bitter, Stomachic, and Diuretic Plant (7j< The Lichen cin evens i err eft ris, recommended in the Philofophical Tranfadh'ons (wj, Ope¬ rates the fame way. But the greateft and fureft Cure of all, is frequent Submerging or Ducking the Pa¬ tient in Water. The Hrft mention I find of this is in Cornelius Celfus (n) ; whether he had it from the Ancient Grecian Phyficians, or it was the Difcovery of his own Age, matters but little to our Purpofe ; certain it is that he coiledted his Principal Rules of Bathing from Cleophantusy who, as Pliny fays (0), did, befides many other delightful things, firft introduce the Ufe of Baths ; (i) Medicam. facult. lib. 9. c. 1, (/) Fab. column. Phytobaian. 27. [m) No. 237. ip) Bib. 5. o 27.