The Vapour arising from vegetable Liquors during their Fermentation, ought not to be approached too near, because it is poisonous: We have Accounts in the _French_ and _German Transactions_, of People who were immediately struck dead, by receiving at the Nose the Fumes that issued from large Vessels of Wine in the State of Fermentation[39]. Footnote 39: _Boerhaave_, p. 120, 130. “I think, says a learned Physician, that God made no Poison, but all things in the World were made for the Use of Man; their chiefest _Deleterium_ is either in the Quantity, or some other Circumstance, as in Lettice, Leeks,—whose _Integra_ are Aliments, the Juices mortiferous. Those things that are pernicious, by their external Form, as beaten Glass, Sponges, have not deserved the Brand of Poison; those that are really lethiferous, are but the Excrescences of Sin, and came in with the Thorns. The Serpent was rather destructive to the Soul than the Body.” Among the Ancients was a Plant that killed Mice with its bare smell, according to _Pliny_: The Poets feign it to have sprung from the Foam of the Dog _Cerberus_, when _Hercules_ dragg’d him out of Hell. The _Aconite Plants_ also are extremely caustic and acrimonious, in virtue whereof they have produced terrible Inflammations, that end in Mortification. So great was the People’s Dread of this Plant, for its venemous Quality, that they durst not touch it and yet, ’tis said, they made use of it against the Sting of _Scorpions_, which is supposed to be deadned by the Touch of the Aconite, and restored to its Vigour by that of _Hellebore_. _N. B._ The Root of the Plant is said to cure all Diseases proceeding from Melancholy, as Disaffections from the _Hypochondria_, _Herpes_ or cutaneous Inflammations. It is also reported that Arrows dipped in the Juice of _Aconite Plants_, proved mortal wherever they wounded. II. _The Globe we inhabit, abounds with Variety of Minerals, of a very mischievous Nature_; as _Arsenic_, found in Copper-mines; _Orpiment_, a Mineral found among Copper-mines, in Stones of different Bigness, Colour and Figure. These, and others of the same venemous Nature, are less or more dangerous, according as their Salts receive a different Force from the metallic Particles.