David Hartley eat two hundred pounds weight of soap to cure the stone,
but died of that disease. Bishop Berkeley drank a butt of tar-water.
Meyer, in a course of chemical neutralization, swallowed 1,200 pounds of
crabs' eyes. In the German Ephemerides, the case of a person is
described who had taken so much elixir of vitriol, that his keys were
rusted in his pocket by the transudation of the acid through the pores
of his skin; another patient is said to have taken argentum nitratum in
solution till he became blue. _Throw physic to the dogs!_
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