A Mechanical Account of Poisons in Several Essays

by Richard Mead

Footnotes to Essay V.

[(152)] Virgil Æn. 7. v. 8.

—— Sævamq; exhalat. opaca Mephitim.

Vid. Servium, ibid.

[(153)] Scaliger. Conject. in Varron.

[(154)] Lib. 13.

[(155)] De Situ Orb. l. 1. c. 13.

[(156)] Ἐιν Ἀρίμοις ὅθι φασὶ Τυφώεος ἔμμθυαι ἐυνάς. Il. Β. v. 783.

[(157)] Nat. Quæst. l. 6. c. 28.

[(158)] Nat. Hist. l. 2. c. 93.

[(159)] L. di Capoa delle Mofet. pag. 37.

[(160)] Vid. Malpigh. de Pulmon.

[(161)] Vid. L. di Capoa Mofet. pag. 40.

[(162)] Pag. 128.

[(163)] Epidem. l. 2, & 3.

[(164)] De Temperament. l. 1. c. 4. & Commentar. in Epidem. l. 3.

[(165)] L. 6. v. 1098.

[(166)] Histor. Afric. l. 1. c. 1. Vid. Purchas’s Pilgrims, l. 6. c. 1.

[(167)] Prognostic. 1. & Galen. Comment.

[(168)] Sect. 3. Aph. 11.

[(169)] De Febre Malign l. 1. c. 11.

[(170)] De Aere, Locis, & Aquis.

[(171)] Φύσιες Νούσων ἰητροἰ. Hippocr. Epid. 6.

[(172)] Dissertatio de opera quam præstant corpora acida vel alcalica in Curatione Morborum.

[(173)] De Febrib. Prop. 27.

[(174)] De Motu Cordis, Prop. 9.

[(175)] Tumulus Pestis, pag. m. 163, & 172.

[(176)] Vid. Lister’s Voyage to Paris.

[(177)] Quis tumidum Guttur miratur in Alpibus. Juvenal Satyr. 13.

[(178)] Lib. 31. cap. 2.

[(179)] Metam. lib. 15.

[(180)] De Therm. lib. 6.

[(181)] N^o. 8.

[(182)] Dr. J. H. Scelera Aquarum: Or, a Supplement to Mr. Graunt on the Bills of Mortality.

[(183)] Lib. 25. c. 3.

[(184)] Geogr. lib. 6.

[(185)] Prorrhet. l. 2. c. 16.

[(186)] De Aere Aquis & Locis, sub finem.

[(187)] De Fontib. Med. Angl. P. 2. pag. 75. At fossilia sive Metallica salix aliæ atq; alia sunt, & nobis & pene igni dixeram indomabilia.

[(188)] Medicin. Static. Sect. 2. Aphor. 6.

[(189)] Ibid. Sect. 3. Ap. 13. Flatus nil aliud est quam rude perspirabile.

[(190)] Lib. 31. c. 3. Damnantur imprimis Fontes quorum Aquæ decoctæ crassis obducunt Vasa crustis.

[(191)] De Aere, Locis, & Aquis.

FINIS.

The Ex­pli­ca­tion of Those Fig­ures which are not Ex­plained in the Trea­tise.

[See Larger.] Figs. 1–19.

M. Vander Gucht Sculp.

• FIG. 1. Represents the Head of the Viper in its Natural Bigness, with the Mouth open, and Fangs Erected.
  • (a) Marks the Poisonous Fang.
  • (b) The Eye.
  • (c) The Hole of one Nostril.
  • (d) The Larynx.
  • (e) The Forked Tongue.

All the Other Figures relating to the Viper are drawn larger than the Life.

• Fig. 7, & 8. Exhibit some Muscles, which serve for the Motion of the Jaws.
  • (a, Fig. 7.) Elevator Maxillæ Inferioris.
  • (b) Depressor ejusdem.
  • (c) Depressor Dentis Venenosi.
  • (d) A Strong Ligament fastened by one Extremity to the Spinal Apophysis of the Second Vertebra of the Neck, and by the other to the end of the Elevator Maxillæ Inferioris.
• • (a, Fig. 8.) A Muscle, which being fixt to the Extremity of both Jaws, serves to pull them backwards, and may be call’d Retractor.
    • (b) The Internal side of the Depressor Dentis Venenosi.
    • (c) Elevator Dentis Venenosi.
    • (d) The Extremity of the Lower Jaw.
    • (e e) Flexores Capitis.
    • (f) The Internal Part of the Skin covered with some Muscular Fibres.

• Fig. 17. Shews the Head of the Scolopendra.
  • (a a) The Wounding Claws.
  • (b) The Mouth.
  • (c c) The Two First Feet.

• Fig. 18. The Weapons of the Nhamdu in their Natural Bigness.