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  <dc:title>Paper, 'Case of a man who was poisoned by eating monks-hood or napellus' by Vincent Bacon</dc:title>
  <dc: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'</dc:description>
  <dc:date>8 February 1732</dc:date>
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