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the elaboratory of the chemift, will bear a very clofe 

 fcrutiny, may perhaps be juftly doubted. For be 

 it remembered, that not only lead and pewter, but 

 alfo the tinning of copper veflels, the folder con- 

 taining a mixture of lead, and the glazing of earthen 

 ware being a calx of lead, are all liable to be cor- 

 roded by acids, or even exprefled oils, 



Cyd£r. — That acid wines or crude cyder may, 

 independent of any adulteration, produce bowel 

 complaints, attended with griping pains> and diar- 

 rhea, cannot be denied, but that they (hould occa- 

 fion a colick, complicated with coftivenefs, and 

 terminating in palfy, is highly improbable. On 

 the contrary, that this difeafe is the genuine pro- 

 duce of the poifon of lead feems to have been 

 proved by the mod fatisfaflory evidence. The 

 Endemial colick of Devonfhire, afcribed by Dr. 

 Huxbam and others, to the acidity of new cyder, 

 has at length been clearly traced to the above 

 poifon. 



From the elaborate eflays of Sir George Baker on 

 this fubje6t, it appears, that, " in thofe diftridls 

 where the difeafe was moft prevalent, lead was 

 generally found in the preffes or utenfils employed 

 in making the cyder, and that on analyfing the fuf- 

 pe6ted liquor, he obtained from it a fmall portion 



of 



