On: Most Execrable and Abominable or Irreligious: When...

[lazlee]

"Sometime in the 1540s or 1550s, the esteemed anatomist Gabriele Falloppio (1523–1562) described a test he had conducted on a condemned criminal granted to him by Grand Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici. Duke Cosimo gave him the convict with the understanding that Falloppio could kill the man as he wished and dissect the body afterward. Falloppio decided to experiment with fatal doses of opium, a substance often described as a poison in the scholarly literature.

The prisoner survived the first test and asked for the dose to be doubled on the second attempt..."

Lol.

[pasquinelli → lazlee]

I wonder if he asked for more because he liked it or to be sure he didn't have to live through another overdose.

[inimino → pasquinelli]

The article continues:

> The prisoner survived the first test and asked for the dose to be doubled on the second attempt, on the assumption that he would go free if he survived, which he did not.