Paper, 'Some experiments concerning the poisonous quality of the simple water distilled distilled from the laurel-cerasus, or common laurel, made upon dogs, at Toppingo Hall in Essex' by Cromwell Mortimer
Reference number: CLP/11ii/18
Date: 24 August 1731
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Paper regarding experiments made on poisonous water steeped with cherry laurel at Toppingo [Toppinghoe] Hall in Essex. Mortimer injected the water or fed the water by mouth to dogs of various sizes and ages to observe how the poison affected their bodies during and after death. A letter recounting further experiments carried out by R Porter and incorporated into this paper is found at CLP/11ii/19.
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Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Some experiments concerning the poisonous quality of the simple water distilled from the Lauro-cerasus, or common laurel, made upon dogs, at Toppingo-Hall in Essex, August the 24th 1731. and others made before the Royal Society in their repository'.
Read at the Royal Society on 28 October 1731.
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- CLP/11ii/18
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- 24 August 1731
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- 16 pages
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Cromwell Mortimer, Paper, 'Some experiments concerning the poisonous quality of the simple water distilled distilled from the laurel-cerasus, or common laurel, made upon dogs, at Toppingo Hall in Essex' by Cromwell Mortimer, 24 August 1731, CLP/11ii/18, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_11ii_18/paper-some-experiments-concerning-the-poisonous-quality-of-the-simple-water-distilled-distilled-from-the-laurel-cerasus-or-common-laurel-made-upon-dogs-at-toppingo-hall-in-essex-by-cromwell-mortimer, accessed on 02 December 2024
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III. Some experiments concerning the poisonous quality of the simple water distilled from the Lauro-cerasus , or common laurel, made upon dogs, at Toppingo-Hall in Essex, August the 24th 1731. and others made before the Royal Society in their repository External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1731
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1731.0027
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Letter, regarding effects of laurel water on dogs from R Porter to Cromwell Mortimer
Reference number: CLP/11ii/19
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Classified papers: volume 11ii concerning 'Pharmacy, Chemystry'
1723-1731 Reference number: CLP/11ii
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