[295]. Accum on culinary poisons, or “Death in the Pot.” As this is the last occasion which we shall have to mention the above work, we may observe by the way, that this ad captandum title is not original with Mr. Accum, for there is a dissertation by Mauchart, entitled “Mors in Olla.”
[296]. Many of the preparations lately presented by Dr. Baillie to the College of Physicians have become black, in consequence of the vermilion, with which they are injected, having been adulterated with red lead.
[297]. Upon this subject, the reader may consult the Historical Introduction to the Pharmacologia, page 87.
[298]. Annal. de Chem. xxxii. 255.
[299]. We have upon this, as well as on similar occasions, preferred adopting the name by which the substance is known in common parlance, to that which might more strictly accord with our scientific views of its composition.
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[301]. F. Hoffmanni Op. om. T. 1. par. ii. c. v. p. 219.
[302]. This subject is treated very copiously in the first volume of the Pharmacologia, page 152. To this work the author must refer the reader, for the limits of the present volume will not allow more than a mere enunciation of the fact.
[303]. Elements of Juridical Medicine, edit. 2, p. 96.
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