Medical Jurisprudence, Volume 2 (of 3)

Name: Medical Jurisprudence, Volume 2 (of 3)
Author: Paris, John Ayrton

Paris, John Ayrton

Medical laws and legislation -- Great Britain

----“Capit inscius heros:
               Induiturque humeris Lernææ virus Echidnæ.
               -----------------------------------------
               -----------------------------------------
               Incaluit vis illa mali; resolutaque flammis;
               Herculeos abiit late diffusa per artus.”

                                       _Ovid. Metam. Lib._ ix. _v._ 157.

Footnote 120:

  Quæst. Med. Leg.

Footnote 121:

  _Sir Edward Coke in the trial of Sir John Hollis._

Footnote 122:

  _Bacon’s_ works, vol. ii. p. 614.

Footnote 123:

  “επιφερεν οιδηματα σωματος, μετα ωχροτητος επιτεταμενης. δυσπνοειν και
  δυσωδια οδωδεναι το στομα, και λυγμος αυτοις επεται, ενιοτε δε και
  σπερματος απροαιρετος εκκρισις.”

Footnote 124:

  1. κωφος η αφθογγος; 2. φωνητικος.

Footnote 125:

  Instit. Mater. Medic. p. 176.

Footnote 126:

  _Manuale di Tossicologia_, p. 79. 245.

Footnote 127:

  See also _Istituzioni di Med. For. di G. Tortosa_, vol. 2. p. 67, and
  authorities there cited.

Footnote 128:

  This fact may be illustrated by ancient as well as modern records;
  from the poisoned tunic of the Centaur Nessus, to the treacherous
  powders of the diabolical _Mary Bateman_.

Footnote 129:

  THEOPHRAST. _Hist. Plant._ lx. c. 16. STRABO mentions the action of
  the _Lauro-cerasus_, as a poison, and observes that it occasions a
  death like that of Epilepsy.

Footnote 130:

  All these substances were found in the casket of _Saint Croix_.

Footnote 131:

  _Gerarde_, in his Herbal, considers the _Cymbalaria_ to be the
  Pennywort of which he describes two varieties, viz. the
  Wall-pennywort, and the Water-pennywort; and he blames the “ignorant
  apothecaries,” for using the latter instead of the former, as
  extremely dangerous and destructive to life. Modern botanists consider
  it as an _Antirrhinum_,—A. Cymbalaria. Lin. i. e. Ivy-leaved
  Toad-flax. We are not aware of any part of this genus being poisonous.
  The _A. Linaria_, common Toad-flax, appears to be the only one to
  which any medicinal virtues have been ascribed. _Linnæus_, however,
  says (Flor. Suec.) that this plant is used as a poison to flies.

Footnote 132:

  Man. de Toxicol.

Footnote 133:

  Hist. General de Venen. mineral.

Footnote 134:

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Medical Jurisprudence, Volume 2 (of 3)

Paris, John Ayrton

Medical laws and legislation -- Great Britain

----“Capit inscius heros:
               Induiturque humeris Lernææ virus Echidnæ.
               -----------------------------------------
               -----------------------------------------
               Incaluit vis illa mali; resolutaque flammis;
               Herculeos abiit late diffusa per artus.”

                                       _Ovid. Metam. Lib._ ix. _v._ 157.

Footnote 120:

  Quæst. Med. Leg.

Footnote 121:

  _Sir Edward Coke in the trial of Sir John Hollis._

Footnote 122:

  _Bacon’s_ works, vol. ii. p. 614.

Footnote 123:

  “επιφερεν οιδηματα σωματος, μετα ωχροτητος επιτεταμενης. δυσπνοειν και
  δυσωδια οδωδεναι το στομα, και λυγμος αυτοις επεται, ενιοτε δε και
  σπερματος απροαιρετος εκκρισις.”

Footnote 124:

  1. κωφος η αφθογγος; 2. φωνητικος.

Footnote 125:

  Instit. Mater. Medic. p. 176.

Footnote 126:

  _Manuale di Tossicologia_, p. 79. 245.

Footnote 127:

  See also _Istituzioni di Med. For. di G. Tortosa_, vol. 2. p. 67, and
  authorities there cited.

Footnote 128:

  This fact may be illustrated by ancient as well as modern records;
  from the poisoned tunic of the Centaur Nessus, to the treacherous
  powders of the diabolical _Mary Bateman_.

Footnote 129:

  THEOPHRAST. _Hist. Plant._ lx. c. 16. STRABO mentions the action of
  the _Lauro-cerasus_, as a poison, and observes that it occasions a
  death like that of Epilepsy.

Footnote 130:

  All these substances were found in the casket of _Saint Croix_.

Footnote 131:

  _Gerarde_, in his Herbal, considers the _Cymbalaria_ to be the
  Pennywort of which he describes two varieties, viz. the
  Wall-pennywort, and the Water-pennywort; and he blames the “ignorant
  apothecaries,” for using the latter instead of the former, as
  extremely dangerous and destructive to life. Modern botanists consider
  it as an _Antirrhinum_,—A. Cymbalaria. Lin. i. e. Ivy-leaved
  Toad-flax. We are not aware of any part of this genus being poisonous.
  The _A. Linaria_, common Toad-flax, appears to be the only one to
  which any medicinal virtues have been ascribed. _Linnæus_, however,
  says (Flor. Suec.) that this plant is used as a poison to flies.

Footnote 132:

  Man. de Toxicol.

Footnote 133:

  Hist. General de Venen. mineral.

Footnote 134:

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