This perhaps may serve to obviate an Objection made against the Goodness of the Deity, in planting a Tree in Paradise that had such malignant Influences; because, supposing that it had any Properties, which might tend to the Dissolution of the human System, yet the same Tree might be very salutary and useful to other Beings in the Creation. Having divided _Poison_ into _Three Parts_, I shall, in the next Place consider them distinctly. I. _This Contrivance of Divine Wisdom is so universal, that we find, in the vegetable Kingdom, something more than what is merely analogous to Poison, both in Land and Water-Plants_; as the _Napellus_, _Cassivi_, _Nux Vomica_, _Aconite_, _Cicuta Aquatica_, _Solanum Lethale_, _Aconitum Hyemale_. Some Poisons are of a Narcotic Quality, as Poppy and Henbane—being taken in too great a Quantity, become poisonous. I shall only add some Instances of Persons kill’d by eating poisonous Plants, Roots, and Herbs. The Wife of _W. Matthews_, near _Salop_, who having gathered a Quantity of _Dog-Mercury_, which she took to be another Herb, boiled it for their Supper, which very sensibly affected the whole Family. One of the Children slept from _Thursday_ Night till _Monday_ Evening, then just opened her Eyes, and died immediately. The other two Children slept about 24 Hours, and, upon their awakening, fell a vomiting and purging, which, ’tis thought, saved their Lives[34]. A certain Woman near _Kilkenny_ in _Ireland_, eating by mistake, a _Hemlock-Root_ among _Parsnips_, was immediately seized with a Raving and Madness. _Ibid._ Footnote 34: _Lowthorp_’s Abridg. Vol. II. Eight young Lads went a fishing to a Brook near _Clonmel_ in _Ireland_, and there meeting with a great Parcel of _Oenanthe Aquatica succo viroso_, they mistook the Roots of it for _Sium Aquaticum_ Roots, and did eat heartily of them. About four or five hours after coming home, the eldest of them, on a sudden, fell down backwards, and lay kicking and sprawling on the Ground, foaming at the Mouth; soon after, four more were seized the same way, and they all died before Morning: not one of them having spoken a Word from the Moment in which the venenate Particles surprised the _Genus nervosum_[35]. Of the other three, one ran stark-mad, but recovered; another had his Hair and Nails fallen off; the third alone escaped: perhaps it might be owing to a strong Constitution, and eating less of that fatal Root; or perhaps it might be attributed to his speedy running above two Miles home (after he saw one young Man fall) together with his drinking a very large Draught of warm Milk from the Cow, in his midway, and a violent Sweating, which might expel many of those venemous Particles. _Ibid._ Footnote 35: _Ibid._ p. 641.