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It moreover occafions a pale fallow countenance, 

 contra6lion and wafting of the mufcles, numbnefs, 

 trennors, languors, convulfions, epilepfy, and death. 

 — Thefe fymptoms vary according to the quantity 

 of the poifon, the ftate of the body, the irritability 

 of the fyftem, and other circumftances. Some- 

 times, without producing fpafms or other violent 

 fymptoms, it only occafions a flow lingering indif- 

 pofition, which, however, lafts fome years, and at 

 length generally eludes the power of medicine. This 

 well accords with what has been tranfmitted to us 

 concerning the flow poifons of the ancients, and 

 feems to confirm the fufpicion that their bafis was no 

 otljer than a fecret calx of lead. — May this fatal calx 

 long reft in oblivion, and never more be revived ! 



Various ways in which it is admitted into the Body, 



This poifon may be received into the body in 

 diet, and in medicine. 



I. Diet, — Water, which conftitutes fo large a 

 proportion of diet in every nation, is generally 

 conveyed through leaden pipes, or cylinders of 

 pumps, and is often left to ftand in leaden cifterns. 

 As thefe have fometimes been found corroded in 

 certain places, by Newman and other chemical 



writers. 



