Tracts on medical jurisprudence : i ncluding Farr's Elements of medical jurisprudence ; Dease's Remarks on medical jurisprudence, Male's Epitome of juridical or forensic medicine, and Haslam's Treatise on insanity : with a preface, notes, and a digest of the law relating to insanity and nuisance / by Thomas Cooper, Esq. M.D. professor of chemistry and mineralogy in the University of Pennsylvania, and heretofore president judge of the fourth judiciary district of Pennsylvania ; to which is added an appendix, containing Erskine's speech for James Hadfield, indicted for shooting at the king ; an abstract of a report of the trial of Abraham Kessler, indicted for poisoning his wife with white arsenic, and laudanum, and a memoir on the chromat of pot-ash, as a test for detecting arsenic, copper, and corrosive sublimate : by Thomas Cooper, Esq. ; read before the Am. Ph. Society, Sep. 18, 1818.

  • Cooper, Thomas, 1759-1839.
Date:
1819
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Credit: Tracts on medical jurisprudence : i ncluding Farr's Elements of medical jurisprudence ; Dease's Remarks on medical jurisprudence, Male's Epitome of juridical or forensic medicine, and Haslam's Treatise on insanity : with a preface, notes, and a digest of the law relating to insanity and nuisance / by Thomas Cooper, Esq. M.D. professor of chemistry and mineralogy in the University of Pennsylvania, and heretofore president judge of the fourth judiciary district of Pennsylvania ; to which is added an appendix, containing Erskine's speech for James Hadfield, indicted for shooting at the king ; an abstract of a report of the trial of Abraham Kessler, indicted for poisoning his wife with white arsenic, and laudanum, and a memoir on the chromat of pot-ash, as a test for detecting arsenic, copper, and corrosive sublimate : by Thomas Cooper, Esq. ; read before the Am. Ph. Society, Sep. 18, 1818. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    says, he has been assured from undoubted authority, that a gentleman had a slight paralytic affection from putting his feet every evening on a piece of lead near the fire, and that his dog lost the use of his limbs by lying on it. Preparations of lead have been given internally in small doses, in cases^bf ulcer of the bladder, vomiting of blood, and other diseases, in which astringent and styptic remedies are required ; bat they should be ad- ministered with great caution, as the most dangerou« effects may result from their use. Lead is classed among the slow poisons : it is seldom or never given with the intention of poisoning, but is received into the body mixed with our aliment, or dissolved in wines. Any acids or fermenting substance, kept in vessels lined or glazed with lead, will dissolve a por- tion of it; and thus we may be taking in a slow but certain poison, and experience all its dreadful effects without suspecting the cause. Delicate people and children are effected by the smell of paint, and there are instances of their having the colic from sleeping iu a recently painted room. Lead is destructive to animal and vegetable life. Plants set in pots of this metal do not thrive, and poultry fed in troughs lined with it, pine and die. It was formerly a common custom to sweeten cider and acid wines, by suspending a ball of lead in the centre of the cask; and to such a pitch had this dangerous art arrived in France, that its practice was made a capital offence. As lead unites very readily with oils, the acetate of sugar of lead has been much