A Mechanical Account of Poisons in Several Essays

About this eBook

Author

Mead, Richard, 1673-1754

Credits

E-text prepared by RichardW and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( archive.org)

Language

English

LoC Class

RA: Medicine: Public aspects of medicine

Subject

Venom -- Physiological effect -- Early works to 1800

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 53202

Release Date

October 3, 2016

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.E-text prepared by RichardW and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( http://www.pgdp.net ) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( https://archive.org ) — A Mechanical Ac­count of Poi­sons in Sev­er­al Es­says, by Rich­ard Mead (Second Edition, 1708).
2. 2.THE PREFACE — THE CONTENTS.
3. 3.Untitled
4. 4.ESSAY. I. — OF THE VIPER.
5. 5.An APPENDIX to the Foregoing Essay; Containing Some Anatomical Ob­ser­va­tions on the V IPER , and an Ac­count of some other Ve­no­mous An­i­mals.
6. 6.Poisonous Animals.
7. 7.Footnotes to Essay I.
8. 8.ESSAY II. — OF THE BITE OF THE TARANTULA AND MAD DOG.
9. 9.Of the Mad DOG.
10. 10.Footnotes to Essay II.
11. 11.ESSAY III. — OF Poisonous Minerals AND PLANTS.
12. 12.Footnotes to Essay III.
13. 13.ESSAY IV. — OF OPIUM.
14. 14.Footnotes to Essay IV.
15. 15.ESSAY V. — Of Venomous Exhalations from the EARTH, Poisonous Airs and Waters.
16. 16.Footnotes to Essay V. — The Ex­pli­ca­tion of Those Fig­ures which are not Ex­plained in the Trea­tise. — Transcriber’s Note

Community reviews

Sign in to write a review.

No reviews yet.