A Mechanical Account of Poisons in Several Essays

by Richard Mead

[(6)] Act. Apost. Chap. 28.

[(7)] Leg. Cornel. Cels. præfat. in Medicin Morbos ait vetustissimis temporib. ad Iram Deorum immortalium relatos esse, & ab iisdem opem posci solitam.

[(8)] Divinæ Potentiæ Symbolum. Vid. Ezec. Spanhem. De Vsu Numismat. p. m. 125, 126, & 181, & seq;

[(9)] Saturnal. Lib. 1. c. 20. Ideo Simulachris Eorum (Æsculapii & Salutis) junguntur figuræ Draconum quia præstant ut humana Corpora velut infirmitatis pelle depositâ, ad pristinum revirescant vigorem, ut virescunt Dracones per annos singulos pelle senectutis exutâ.

[(10)] Osservazioni intorno alle Vipere.

[(11)] Nouvelles Experiences sur la Vipere.

[(12)] Philosophical Transactions, Vol. XII. No. 144.

[(13)] Vid. [Fig. 19.]

[(14)] Dissertatio de Opera quam præstant Corpora Acida vel Alcalica in Curatione Morborum.

[(15)] Vid. Bernoulli de Effervescentia & Fermentatione.