JB/087/165/002

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Indirect

Corpus delicti
Instructions

than the means of healing. The proper medium
seems to be [to circulate the instructions indeed, but
to] confine the circulation of them to persons
who are always at hand to be of use, while
at the same time their character station and education: such as medical
practitioners and ministers of parishes. In this
view the instructions ha might be in latin: a
language which the persons last mentioned may
be presumed to be acquainted with.

At the same time the knowledge of such
poisons as obtrude themselves unsought, insomuch
that people may unaware administer
them to themselves & to their friends should be made as
general as possible in another view. This
belongs to the head of legislation against calamity
Depraved indeed must be the character of the
people if hemlock for instance which is so easily mistaken
for parsley, and copper which is so apt
to be dissolved from vessels of which the tinning
is worn away are not more likely to taken
by mistake than administerd by design: In
these cases then there is more to be hoped
from the communication of this knowledge, dangerous
as it is, than to be feared.

Identifier: | JB/087/165/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 87.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	1-3
Box	087	Main Headings	indirect legislation
Folio number	165	Info in main headings field	indirect
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f29 / f30 / f31 / f32
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	27690
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