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Materia Medica

Astringents

hands by taking soup before he began to glaze, bakers are
subject to this disease which in some measure serves to show it does
not always proceed from the action of lead, type founders are also
subject to this complaint. Colica Pictinum.
The bowels should always be kept open, for which purpose the christals
of tartar and castor oil should always be recommended sometimes
the puse [pulse] is full, when bleeding will be necessary. Dr Cullen says it
is never accompanied with fever but he is certainly mistaken.
Mercurial purges are verry good, but in general Ol. Recini will
answer every purpose, and I prefer it in this disease Opium after
the bowels have been opened maybe used to relieve pain. Stone
says that opium purges by rousing intermittants from their
torpor. I have used the warm bath with happy effects and
have also poured cold water on the patients feet with advantage,
the bad effects of lead is seldom produced by too large doses
accidentally taken as by small doses repeatedly taken, large doses
sometimes vomit and purge it has been used externally in
inflamation as Erysipelas, in injections, in application to sore eyes &c.
I think it verry seldom does harm Cullen says it induces
mortification, but Darwin says that lead water applied to Erysipelatous