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A Mechanical Account of Poisons in Several Essays

Richard Mead

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Richard Mead dissected the viper to learn how its bite kills, then turned to opium and other venoms in a series of cool experimental essays. One of the earliest mechanical accounts of poisons, it treats toxicity as a puzzle of anatomy and motion. A cornerstone in the history of toxicology and Enlightenment medicine. Meet poison as the first scientists studied it.

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23 chapters

  1. 1A Mechanical Ac­count of Poi­sons in Sev­er­al Es­says, by Rich­ard Mead (Second Edition, 1708).
  2. 2THE PREFACE
  3. 3THE CONTENTS.
  4. 4ESSAY. I.
  5. 5OF THE VIPER.
  6. 6An APPENDIX to the Foregoing Essay; Containing Some Anatomical Ob­ser­va­tions on the VIPER, and an Ac­count of some other Ve­no­mous An­i­mals.
  7. 7Poisonous Animals.
  8. 8Footnotes to Essay I.
  9. 9ESSAY II.
  10. 10OF THE BITE OF THE TARANTULA AND MAD DOG.
  11. 11Of the Mad DOG.
  12. 12Footnotes to Essay II.
  13. 13ESSAY III.
  14. 14OF Poisonous Minerals AND PLANTS.
  15. 15Footnotes to Essay III.
  16. 16ESSAY IV.
  17. 17OF OPIUM.
  18. 18Footnotes to Essay IV.

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