VITRIOL, white, _see_ Sulphate of Zinc. oil of, _see_ Sulphuric Acid.
VOMITING blood, feigned, 365 urine feigned, _ib._ difficult to excite in cases of poisoning by opium, II. 389—393
WADDING, murder detected by the examination of, III. 39
WATCH and WARD, physicians exempt, 18—72 surgeons and apothecaries exempt, 54
WATER, in the stomach or lungs of bodies supposed to have been drowned, II. 38 boiling, death by, II. 202—316 stagnant, 91 tainting, 330—350—351
WHITEWASHING infected chambers should be enforced, 142
WINES adulterated with lead, II. 344—345 test of, II. 363
WITNESSES, medical, 153 expenses of, 154 examination of, 158 not privileged, 160 observations on, 161
WOUNDS, classification of, II. 116 examination of, II. 118—III. 45 direction of, II. 119—126 incised, II. 119 gun-shot, II. 124 whether inflicted during life, II. 127—III. 31 whether mortal, III. 30
ZINC and its compounds, II. 202 sulphate of, II. 207 poisoning by, II. 297 tests of, II. 299
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[Cited by Sir Wm. Browne in his Vindication of the College of Physicians. Quarto, London 1753.]
Ex Bundello petitionum de an^o. 9^o. H. 5. in Parliamento.
HEY and most mighty prince noble and worthy lords spirituelx and temporelx and worshipfull comunes, for so moche as a man hath thre things to governe, that is to say soule, body, and worldly goods, the which ought and shulde ben principaly reweled by thre sciences, that ben divinitie, fisyk, and lawe, the soule by divinitie, the body by fisyk, worldly goods by lawe, and those conynges should be used and practised principally by the most connyng men in the same sciences, and most approved in cases necessaries to encrese of virtue, long life, and gouds of fortune, to the worship of God and comyn profit.
But worthi soveraines hit is known to your hey discretion, meny uncunning and unaproved in the aforesaide science practiseth, and specialy in fysyk, so that in this realme is every man be he never so lewed taking upon him practice y suffered to use it to grete harm and slaughtre of many men, where if no man practiced therein but al only connynge men and approved sufficiently y learned in art, filosofye, and fysyk, as it is kept in other londes and roialmes ther shuld many man that dyeth for defaute of helpe lyve, and no man perish by unconning.