The Medical Works of Dr Richard Mead Author:Richard Mead Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: gelly, or broth; or rather, as the ancient manner, was, to boil vipers, and eat them like fifh ; or if this food will not go down, (though really very good and d... more »elicious fare), to make life at leaft of wine, in which dried vipers have been digefted fix or feven days, in a gentle heat , from which I have feen very good effects in obftinate lepras ; or laftly, (in fomc cafes efpecially, where wine is not convenient), to take either the powder, or good quantities of the vi- perine fait, in which alone the virtue of all medicines made from this creature refides. And therefore the fait of any other animal, which is ftill more pungent and Aimulating than this, (as is particularly that of Cantharides), is yet a more powerful remedy in dry and fcaly leprous eruptions; which may without any inconvenience be given in the form of a tincture made with Ipirit of wine f. An APPENDIX, Containing an anatomical defcription of thofc parts in a viper, and in a rattle-fnake, which are concerned in their poifon : With a fliort account of fome other venomous animals. IN order to give a full view of the inftruments of death in a viper, and that larger fpecies of it, the rattle-make, I Ihall explain the figures drawn from diflections of them both, beginning with the lefler a- Vid. Pharmacop. Load, f Vid, eand. Pharmacop. nlmal,nimat, and ending with the bigger. And if fomt things are repeated in the latter, which had been ob- ferved In the former, this will not be thought tedious: becaufc, in fubjects fo minute, it is fometimes necefla- ry to reprefent the fame parts in different fituations arid connections, that the ufes affigned to them may be the more clearly underftood. And for this reafon, I fhall not follow the order of the figures, fo much as I flail the thread of the defcriptio...« less