An essay on the effects of lead: comprising a few experiments on the saccharum saturni, and its application in the cure of diseases ... / [Thomas Semmes].

  • Semmes, Thomas, 1778-1833.
Date:
1801
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Credit: An essay on the effects of lead: comprising a few experiments on the saccharum saturni, and its application in the cure of diseases ... / [Thomas Semmes]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Lae Oy The injurious effects of this mineral are not exclufively confined to the human fpe- cies ; quadrupeds, -birds, and even vegeta- bles fometimes fuffer by it noxious influence. Dr. Percival mentions a dog, who from laying frequently on a plate of lead, before a fire was feized with a paralytic affection of his limbs. Cats, he likewife obferves, are fome- times driven to madnefs by it; and we have inftances, on his authority, of birds being killed by eating pieces of red wafer, into the compofition of which, enters a {mall quantity of lead. The effluvia, that arifes from fmelt- ing mills, where lead is obtained from the ore, by fettling on the adjacent fields, effectually deftroys the herbage. OF THE PREMONITORY SYMPTOMS FROM THE POISON OF LEAD, AND PROPHYLAXIS. As the prevention of difeafe ought to be a primary confideration with phyficians, a knowledge of the fymptoms, which indicate its approach, are certainly of the greateft impor- tance; from ignorance and inattention to thefe circumftances, many difeafes have proved fatal, which might eafily have been remedied, had they been attended to in their commencement. Some of the moft formida-