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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    - ar] fymptom occurred in two of my experiments. Dr. R. Warren, fays, out of thirty-two cafes of colica pictonum, caufed by lead, which he had an opportunity of obferving, four were fali- vated, and others complained that their mouths and throats were fore.* ‘The fame fymptoms occurred to a very extenfive de- gree, in Mr. Thunberg and others, as already mentioned. Are not heat at ftomach, naufea, and vo- miting, confequent upon taking flimulants? fuch are the effeéts of lead. Do not arfenic, opium, and other poifons, produce convulfion and paralyfis? ‘The preparations of lead have done the fame. Various ftimulating fubftances are known to conftipate the bowels; lead has the fame effect, hen Is the cutanious fyftem influenced by fti- muli? fo likewife it is by the fugar of lead, caufing preternatural heat; this was the ef- fect of lead on myfelf and feveral of the fub- jeéts of my other experiments. Do certain incitants induce diaphorefis ? In the experiments communicated by Mr. Wathington and Dr. Black, and in one that I made upon myfelf, the fame effect was pro- - ® Vid. Med.:-Tranf. Vol. I.