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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    tC eho EXPERIMENT IL. At 10 o’clock, A. M. about one hour after breakfaft, I took 2 grains of fugar of lead, mixed in a little fyrup. My pulfe beat 70 {trokes ina minute, its natural ftandard; when the wt ee were obferved. In 15 |} 18 | 20 ]-23 M. P. B. a ae ra 74|73| 741731 70) 68 | St. In 36 45 60 | 70} 80| 90| M. P. B. 67 23 67 | 65 | 65 | 66 | 64] 66 | St. te Af0 120 | 130 | 140 | 150 he 69 | 67 | 68 | 68 af In 15 minutes, after taking the rere my pulfe was increafed in number, and rather quicker ; but no increafe of ftrength was perceptible. In 50 minutes, my pulfe was flower, and a little diminifhed in volume, at the expiration of one hour, there was. an evi- dent diminution of ftrength in the pulfe—at 80 minutes, had a naufea, which lafted 15 minutes, with pulfe contracted; in 150 mi- nutes my pulfe had refumed its natural a€tion. I continued to examine it for feveral hours after, when it varied from 68 to 73. EXPERIMENT III. In one hour and 20 minutes, after mak- ing a light breakfaft; I took 3 grains of