Essay on the Liverpool spa' water / [Thomas Houlston].

  • Houlston, Thomas, 1745-1787
Date:
1773
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Credit: Essay on the Liverpool spa' water / [Thomas Houlston]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( ^9 ) are too often fufferM to fland in the milk, &c. which the child takes: as aifo againfc giving them toys daub’d with paint to amufc them, in which lead has a great fhare •, young children generally putting into their mouths whatever they have in their hands. Hence, not improbably, may arife many of thofe complaints in the flomach and bowels which are frequent in infants,who will be much eafier affeffed, than others, by the nox¬ ious metal. Nor muft we lofe fight of this, that, as the adtion of this poifon is on the nervous fyf- teni, its effedls will be very different in different conflitutions, and the fame dofe will frequently caufe no fenfible bad effedt on fome, w hich may fuffice to produce the moft deplorable evils, and even incurable complaints in others. And hence it is, that thefe confequences of an acci¬ dental ufe of lead are not fo general, as wc might otherwife expedf them to bc.--But asa proof that thefe combinations of lead are not fiippofition only, real lead can be obtain’d from them. Lead ev'en externally applied has proved hurt¬ ful, altho’ it is the bafis of an external remedy againft inflammation, &:c, which is of infinite ufe when prudently adminifler’d, adls on the nervous fyftem, and takes off inflammation, ob- tunding the fenfibility. A piece of flieet lead worn upon an ifllie, a plaifter of which lead is -,the