Copy 3

A mechanical account of poisons in several essays / By Richard Mead.

  • Richard Mead
Date:
1702
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A mechanical account of poisons in several essays / By Richard Mead. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    187/202 (page 167)
    This Poor Fare, together with the Heat of the Climate, makes them fo liable to Ma¬ lignant Diffcempers; from the Attacks of which Thofe who Feed well are more Safe and Secure. Thus much concerning Poifonous Exha¬ lations and Airs,, fo far as the Confideration of the Grotta de* Cani has led Us on to en¬ quire into their Effects j for tho’ there may¬ be other Alterations of this fame Element, differing in their Nature from this we have infilled upon, and yet equally Pernicious and Hurtful, yet We take no Notice of any of them, in regard that thofe which are from Arfenical, Mercurial, and the like Fumes, are reducible to a foregoing Effay ; and thofe which are owing to a Change of the known Properties of the Air, may be eafily ex¬ plain’d by what has been already delivered in Fhis. I fhall therefore rather chufe to make fome Remarks on the Mifchiefof ano¬ ther Fluid, which as It is next in ufetoThis we have been treating of, fo the bad Quali¬ ties of it, when it comes to be altered, mud neeeffarily be almoft equally Fatal and Dan¬ gerous. I mean Water, which is of fo con (rant Service,, not only for our Drinks, but alio M 4 in