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Effe^ls ^Poison ^Copper, 



When this poifon is accidentally received into 

 the body, unlefs it be immediately expelled, it pro« 

 duces the moft formidable fymptoms, as enormous 

 vomitings, profufe difcharges of bile both upwards 

 and downwards, inflammations and erofions of the 

 llomach and bowels, delirium, convulfions, fyncope, 

 and death. Nay, even the handling of this poifon 

 in the form of verdigris, or a compofition contain- 

 ing it, has in certain irritable habits been known to 

 occafion very difagreeable efFedts.* The manu- 

 faiSlurers of verdigris, and thofe who grind it for 

 paint, or ufe it in oil or water-colours, feldom fail 

 to experience its noxious influence on the organs pf 

 refpiration or digeftion. 



** I have known," fays an eminent ProfefTor of 

 chemiftry, ^* vehement vomitings and convulfions 

 in children from the Ungusntum j^gyptiacumy (whofe 

 bafis is verdigris) injudicioufly applied to ulcers in 

 the mouth if likewife a perfon, who accidentally 



* See the extraordinary cafe of Mr. Butler of Mofcow* as recorded 

 by Dr. Mounfey. Among other fymptoms, fevere Itching, and burn- 

 ing pungent pain daiting through the limbs like eledlricity. 



Phil. Tranf. vol. 50, art, 2d. and Sequel, vol. 54, art^ ad, 

 I Newman's CJieaucal Works, vol. i,^. 98. 



having 



