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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    [25d EXPERIMENT VI. On the tenth day after experiment the 5th was made, at feven o’clock A. M. I took on an empty ftomach, five grains of fugar of lead; my pulfe beating 66 in a minute. In Sun peOe 19 12 | 15 | 18 | 20| 23 | 26] 30| M. P. B. | 66 | 68 | 71 | 71 73176] 75 | 75 | 74) 76 | St. In 35 | 40 | 45 | 50 | 55 | 60 | 70 | 80] 90] M. Be Bio tS) 72-170 ob 73° 72 £7067 OE GS PEF | Ot In 100 | 110 | 120 | 1380] 140] 150{ 160| M. P.B. | 635 63 60 58 60 §8. ibe 87 Bt. In 6 minutes, I felt a warmth at the ftomach; in 12 minutes, my pulfe was fomewhat increaf- edin force, with an increafe of heat at fto- mach ; in 20 minutes the fullnefs of the arte- rial fyftem was rather greater. At the end of 40 minutes, my cheeks feemed warmer than ufual; when one hour had elapfed, I felt fome uneafinefs at ftomach, my pulfe being weak and corded; when two hours had elapfed, confiderable naufea occurred; my pulfe feeble and not fo frequent; at 130 minutes, made feveral effects to vomit, but difcharged no- thing from my ftomach; at 140 minutes the naufea returned. At 160 minutes feeling extremely unplea- fant, with my pulfe feeble and tremulous, and not having eat any thing during the morning, D