Sweden is particularly distinguished for the accuracy of its bills of mortality. Exact accounts have been taken of the births, marriages, and burials, and of the numbers of both sexes that died at all ages in every town and district; and also at the end of every period of five years, of the numbers living at every age. At Stockholm a society was established whose business it was to superintend and regulate the enumeration, and to collect from the different parts of the kingdom the registers, in order to digest them into tables of observation. Footnote 53: See a memoir in the first volume of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, entitled “On the Accidents which occur in the Mines of Cornwall, in consequence of the premature explosion of gunpowder in blasting rocks, and on the methods to be adopted for preventing it, by the introduction of safety bars, by _J. A. Paris_, M.D. &c.” Footnote 54: See the author’s Pharmacologia, edit. v. _Hist. Introd._ vol. i, p. 92. Footnote 55: Ibid. vol. ii, p. 830. art. _Papaveris Capsulæ_. Footnote 56: Ibid. vol i, p. 53, note. Footnote 57: See vol. i, p. 260, _note_. Footnote 58: The Introductory Lecture of a Course upon State Medicines London, 1821. Footnote 59: Chlorine—Eu-chlorine—Muriatic acid—Sulphurous acid—Nitrous oxide—Carbonic acid—Sulphuretted hydrogen—Ammonia—Cyanogen. Footnote 60: See the plan proposed by the author, in the Journal of Science and the Arts, no. xxviii, p. 436. Footnote 61: The reader must refer to our chapter “on the Physiological Causes of Sudden Death,” p. 23; and to that “on Syncope,” p. 25. Footnote 62: The imposition of Urine-casting owed its origin to monastic practice, where the inspection of the urine in the monastery obviated the trouble of a personal communication with the patient. Footnote 63: In 1500, _Francis Anthony_ was charged with killing several persons by a medicine, said to have been compounded of Gold and Mercury, which he called his _Aurum Potabile_.—_Goodall, Pro_ 349. Footnote 64: See however on this subject a pamphlet published at Oxford in 1721, occasioned by the case of the King _v._ the Bishop of Chester. Footnote 65: The exclusion of persons, not being graduates of an English University, formed the subject of a royal letter, for which see Appendix, page 92. Footnote 66: See Lord Kenyon’s judgment, 7 Term Rep. 288, and Appendix page 134. Footnote 67: _Henry_ himself appears to have added some study of Physic to his other pursuits; among the _Sloane MSS._ in the British Museum there are several receipts invented by the king in conjunction with Doctors _Butt_ and _Chambers_; the familiarity of the former with _Henry_ is shown by _Shakspeare_, _Hen. 8th_, _Act._ 4. _Scene_ 2. Footnote 68: