[58]. The Introductory Lecture of a Course upon State Medicines London, 1821.
[59]. Chlorine—Eu-chlorine—Muriatic acid—Sulphurous acid—Nitrous oxide—Carbonic acid—Sulphuretted hydrogen—Ammonia—Cyanogen.
[60]. See the plan proposed by the author, in the Journal of Science and the Arts, no. xxviii, p. 436.
[61]. The reader must refer to our chapter “on the Physiological Causes of Sudden Death,” p. 23; and to that “on Syncope,” p. 25.
[62]. The imposition of Urine-casting owed its origin to monastic practice, where the inspection of the urine in the monastery obviated the trouble of a personal communication with the patient.
[63]. In 1500, Francis Anthony was charged with killing several persons by a medicine, said to have been compounded of Gold and Mercury, which he called his Aurum Potabile.—Goodall, Pro 349.
[64]. See however on this subject a pamphlet published at Oxford in 1721, occasioned by the case of the King v. the Bishop of Chester.
[65]. The exclusion of persons, not being graduates of an English University, formed the subject of a royal letter, for which see Appendix, page 92.
[66]. See Lord Kenyon’s judgment, 7 Term Rep. 288, and Appendix page 134.
[67]. Henry himself appears to have added some study of Physic to his other pursuits; among the Sloane MSS. in the British Museum there are several receipts invented by the king in conjunction with Doctors Butt and Chambers; the familiarity of the former with Henry is shown by Shakspeare, Hen. 8th, Act. 4. Scene 2.