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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    , ( ) Lead, by whatever means, or In whatever form it gains admittance into the human body, is found to produce dangerous or fatal efFed^s. This Teems to have been well known and per- fedly underftood even by the antientsj and Pliny, iTitius, Paulus ^genita, and Vitruvius, have confidered Lead as highly poilbnous. The Italians,French, See. have long been wholly indebted to this metal, for thole flow poifons, which were in former ages To frequently admi- nifler’d, and which have render’d thoTe nations To defervedly infamous. By preparations of this metal they knew how to enfure death, even at a diftant period from their exhibition, or, by a continued, imperceptible, repetition of fmall dofes of them, to deftroy, without fuTpicion, or the polTibility of deteeSlion. Shall we not then be aftonifh-d at being inform’d that we often are daily, of our own accord, fwallowing fmall dofes of this poifon, againft which we ought e- ver to be upon our guard I We are indebted to the learned Dr. Baker for evincing, that the poifon of lead may, and ‘ frequently does, gain admittance into the. human body, unobferved and unfufpeded. The Dr. has alfo been at great pains to cau¬ tion the world againft it, by pointing'out the dano-ers w