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Paper, 'Experiments and observations on the different modes in which death is produced by certain vegetable poisons' by B C [Benjamin Collins] Brodie

Reference number: PT/5/11

Date: 1811

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Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Experiments and observations on the different modes in which death is produced by certain vegetable poisons. By B. C. Brodie, Esq. F. R. S. Communicated by the Society for promoting the knowledge of animal chemistry'.

Read 21 February 1811.

Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 1, 1832.

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Benjamin Collins Brodie, Paper, 'Experiments and observations on the different modes in which death is produced by certain vegetable poisons' by B C [Benjamin Collins] Brodie, 1811, PT/5/11, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_5_11/paper-experiments-and-observations-on-the-different-modes-in-which-death-is-produced-by-certain-vegetable-poisons-by-b-c-benjamin-collins-brodie, accessed on 20 January 2026

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