An account of a new and successful method of treating those affections which arise from the poison of lead; to which are added general observations on the internal use of lead as a medicine / [Henry Clutterbuck].

  • Clutterbuck, Henry, 1767-1856
Date:
1794
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An account of a new and successful method of treating those affections which arise from the poison of lead; to which are added general observations on the internal use of lead as a medicine / [Henry Clutterbuck]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A Oe) - It is with much fatisfaction that I. now publifh an account of the good fuccels, which has attended a particular method of treating a difeafe, which, whether it be — _-confidered with regard to the frequency of its occurrence ; or to the painful and de- ftruétive train of fymptoms it brings along with it, cannot but be eflimated as of the firft importance. : The affeCtion of which I am about to fpeak, has been defcribed under vari- ous appellations, according to the places, m which it has been moft prevalent, or ac- cording to its moft common, and ftriking fymptoms. The terms Colzca Pictonum, or Colic of Poztou, Colica Damnont, or Devonfhire Colic, Colzca Saturnina, Pain- ter’s Colac, Belland, and dry Belly-ach, are all applicable tothe fame affeftion ; they are all followed by the fame paralytic {tate of the limbs, and undoubtedly originate 4n one common caule; to wit, the applica- tion of the poifon of lead to the body. hoe 1S ee a Almoft