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Baker, Dr. Percival, and other eminent authors, 

 concerning this poifon, will foon be convinced that 

 they are but too well founded, and confcquendy 

 that thefe caudons are not altogether fuperfluous. 

 Seldom do the common people err through excels 

 of caution, but often through the want of it. Few 

 of them indeed have Icifure or inclination to trace 

 this fubje6t through a variety of medical volumes, 

 who neverthelefs perufe, with eagernefs, the Society's 

 papers, or other Ihort eflays in which they confider 

 themfelves to be materially interefted. The fol- 

 lowing admonitions, therefore, are not addrefled to 

 the medical faculty, but to the heads of families, 

 whofe duty it is to watch over the health of thofe 

 who are committed to their charge. 



GENERAL EFFECTS 



OF THE 



POISON OF LEAD. 



Lead in every form is unfriendly to animal and 

 vegetable life. The miners who dig the ore, the 

 fmelters who reduce it to a metallic (late, manu- 

 fadlurers of white lead, painters, plumbers, in a 

 word, all who are much expofed to its effluvia, 

 bear teftimony to its pernicious eSefls. Its fumes 

 Aa2 are 



