Essay on the Liverpool spa' water / [Thomas Houlston].

  • Thomas Houlston
Date:
1773
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Credit: Essay on the Liverpool spa' water / [Thomas Houlston]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    APPENDIX. On die Accidental Use of LEA D. ^anto pejus dfficlt^ quo irrepit tediius, Boerhaave, Elem. Chcm. Y. 2* Having faid fomuch, on what may not improperly be termed a domejiic medicine^ I fhall take this- occafion of cautioning the public againft a domeftk pifon^ the more to be appre¬ hended, as its attacks are unperceived, and unfufpedled, and its efFeds truly deplorable. Add to this, that there are few families,' into which it does not, one way or other, find ad- million in a greater or lefs degree, and that, €ven in very minute quantities^ it has been known to produce its bad efFedts on particular delicate conftitutions. The pointing out fo dangerous an. enemy is of too much importance, not to^ render any apology unnecelFary, for annexing to this treatife, a few, words on a fubjedl no way connedted with it, H2 Lead