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
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![[ 52 ] lefs efficacious than the fugar of lead. Of one thing I am perfuaded, that the digitalis does not, in general, produce fo immediate an effet upon the difeafe as the lead does. I am fure that you, who know with what caution I always fpeak of medicines in my lectures, will not fuppofe, that I recommend the fugar of lead as a specific for the cure of uterine or other haemorrhages. I confidently recommend it, however, as a powerful and valuable medicine ; and I cannot but fuppofe that it may generally, if not always, be exhi- bited with perfect safety. Yet it may be ne- ceffary, in cafes in which we have not already given the medicine, to watch its effeCts with a nice attention. I believe, that there are fome perfons who are liable to be injured by very fmall portions of lead. I believe it isa fact, that lead, whether it be taken into the ftomach, or applied in the fhape of vapour, externally to the body, does not, in. general, produce its bad effets until fome days after it has been applied. Thefe fats fhould lead us to obferve fome degree of circum{pection in the ufe of the me- dicine, in the treatment of difeafes. It is not impoffible that one or two grains of the fugar of lead, may now and then, occafion fome in-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b32886354_0060.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
