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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    ( ^3 ) metallic colics,> palfies, and death, evidently occafion’d by this undefigned adulteration. Dr, Warren alfo mentions, that in the late Duke of Newcaftle’s family, when at Hanover, in June 1752, thirty two perfons w^ere feiz’d with the metallic colic, after having drank a fmall white ' wine, adulterated with lead. One of them di¬ ed epileptic in lefs than a fortnight, the reft, af¬ ter fuffering much and rclapfing frequently, re¬ cover’d, except one, who remains paralytic. Even ftiot remaining in bottles, and corroded by the liquor, may be of bad confequence. For certain it is, however the internal ufe of lead, as a medicine, may have been inculcated, in par¬ ticular circumftances, by fome medical writers, it will generally be found to be, of a moft dan¬ gerous tendency. The common wine meafures are made of bafe pewter, in which is a confiderable propor¬ tion of lead. Wine, cyder, or vinegar may prey upon thefe, and thus accidentally acquire a dangerous adulteration. The fame happens frequently from keeping thefe liquors in, or drinking them out of, common glazed earthen velTels. The common black glaze is little elfe than an imperfedt vitrification of lead; the common yellow