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Thus may acids, fermented liquors, and various 

 furpe(5led articles of diet, beeafily put to the telt. 



Where clear pellucid liquors are to be examined, 

 the volatile alkali alone is quite fufficient ; but in all 

 turbid or coloured mixtures, it will be fometimes 

 requifite to have recourfe to the feveral methods 

 fucceffively, by which, it is prefumed, the poifon 

 cannot eafily efcape detedlion. 



Indications of Cure. 



Pra^lical authors, among whom M. Tijfoty Dr. 

 BuclMny and others, who have humanely conde- 

 fcended to inftrud the common people concerning 

 various difeafes to which they are incident, feem to 

 have been rather deficient concerning the treatment 

 of metallick poifons. After the ufe of an emetick, 

 they appear to lay the whole ftrefs on copious dilu- 

 tion with milk, oil, or fat broths, which, though by 

 no means improper, yet are too often found inade- 

 quate to the cure. 



Milk, and oleaginous fluids, it mud be obferved, 

 dilTolve metallick falts with difficulty, and there- 

 fore are much inferior to tepid water, the common 

 menftruum of all faline bodies, and the bcft diluent 

 for wafliing them fpeedily out of the body. Olea- 

 ginous fubftanccs tend to mitigate the fymptoms, 



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