| Description | Bacon, a surgeon, shares the case study of a silk weaver in Spitalfields [London] who was poisoned by eating monkshood (Aconitum napellus), or wolf's bane. Bacon describes the man's symptoms in detail, and describes feeding the man 'spirit' and Carduus [thistle] tea to induce vomiting.
Subject: Medicine / Toxicology
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'The case of a man who was poison'd eating monks-hood or napellus, communicated to the Royal Society by Mr. Vincent Bacon, Surgeon, F. R. S' |