Paper, 'Case of a man who was poisoned by eating monks-hood or napellus' by Vincent Bacon
Reference number: CLP/14ii/41
Date: 08 February 1732
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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'
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- CLP/14ii/41
- Earliest possible date
- 08 February 1732
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- 4 pages
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Paper, 'Case of a man who was poisoned by eating monks-hood or napellus' by Vincent Bacon, 08 February 1732, CLP/14ii/41, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_14ii_41/paper-case-of-a-man-who-was-poisoned-by-eating-monks-hood-or-napellus-by-vincent-bacon, accessed on 12 July 2025
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III. The case of a man who was poison'd eating monks-hood or napellus, communicated to the raoyal society by Mr. Vincent Bacon, Surgeon, F. R. S External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1733
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1733.0043
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