An account of a new and successful method of treating those affections which arise from the poison of lead : to which are added general observations on the internal use of lead as a medicine.

  • Clutterbuck, Henry, 1767-1856.
Date:
1794
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Credit: An account of a new and successful method of treating those affections which arise from the poison of lead : to which are added general observations on the internal use of lead as a medicine. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    a few hours, however, thefe effects difap- peared. The fame fubftance injebied into the veins produced inftant death. A perfon who had been accuffomed to fit before the fire, with his feet on a plate of lead, was attacked with a flight para- lytic affebtion of his legs; and a dog, that ufed to lay down on the fame place, al- moft entirely loft the ufe of his limbs. *A boy, who was fond of amufing himfelf, by running barefoot over warm plates of lead, was feized with colic, violent convulfions of his extremities, and a palfy on one fide.fi Avicenna calls litharge ct lethale medi- <c camentum, urinam fiftens, ventrem et fc ureteres inflans, et diftendens, refpira- (e tionem coarctans.” Sir George Baker has alfo brought for- wards feveral inftances of ill effefts occa- fioned by the internal ufe of lead. This * Dr. Pcrcival’s Obfervations on the Poifon of Lead, + Ibid. .«