A Mechanical Account of Poisons: In Several EssaysJ. Brindley, 1747 - 320 Seiten |
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Seite 164 - ... in (with his head above water) longer than half a minute, if the water be very cold; after this he must go in three times a week for a fortnight longer.
Seite 36 - Hist. lib. vii. c. 2). These people were thought to have something in their constitution so contrary to poison, that no venomous creature would touch them : and it was pretended that they made this a trial of the legitimacy of their children. The truth of the matter is, they performed the cure in a manner very surprising to the vulgar, that is, by applying their mouth to the wound and sucking out the venom. The Marsi in Italy pretended to the same power. Some ceremonies to overawe the patient and...
Seite 40 - He immediately put his fingers into his mouth and sucked the wound. His under-lip and tongue were presently swelled to a great degree : he faltered in his speech, and in some measure lost his senses. He then drank a large quantity of oil, and warm water upon it, by which he vomited plentifully. A live pigeon was cut in two and applied to the finger. Two hours after this, the flesh about the wound was cut out, and the part burnt with a hot iron, and the arm embrocated with warm oil. He then recovered...
Seite 82 - This snake lives chiefly upon squirrels and birds, which a reptile can never catch without the advantage of some management to bring them within its reach. The way is this. The snake creeps to the foot of a tree, and, by shaking his rattle, awakens the little creatures which are lodged in it. They are so...
Seite xxii - ... for God made not death, neither hath He pleasure in the destruction of the living. For He created all things that they might have their being, and He wished the nations of the world to be healthful.
Seite 147 - I have known it, in the height of a violent hyfteric diforder, to have continued for many hours, till the convulfive motions in the throat were quieted by proper medicines : and I remember a cafe, in which fits of a palpitation of the heart were attended with fo great a degree of it, that it feemed not to differ from the true hydrophobia.
Seite 101 - ... that they would at any rate, to avoid fhame, have concealed the misfortune which had befallen Q_ 3 them . them.
Seite 82 - It is commonly said that it is a kind contrivance of divine Providence, to give warning to passengers by the noise which this part makes when the creature moves, to keep out of the way of its mischief. Now this is a mistake. It is beyond all dispute that wisdom and goodness shine forth in all the works of the creation ; but the contrivance here is of another kind than is imagined. All the parts of animals are made either for the preservation of the individual, or for the propagation of its species...
Seite 46 - And to convince my felf of its good effects, I enraged a Viper to bite a young dog in the nofe : both the teeth were ftruck deep in ; he howled bitterly, and the part began to fwell : I diligently applied fome of the Axungia I had ready at hand, and he was very well the next day. BUT becaufe fome .gentlemen, who faw this experiment, were apt to impute the cure rather to the dog's fpittle (he licking the wound^ than to the .virtue of the fat ; we...
Seite 8 - ... at firft red, but afterwards livid, which by degrees fpreads farther to the neighbouring parts ; with great faintnefs, and a quick, though low, and fometimes (m) Oflervazioni intorno alle vipere.