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fol. Digital. made into_ pills, with gum ammoniac 
and aromatic fpecies, foon relieved his. breathing. : 
Attempts were then made to affift him i in other re- 
{pects, but with litile good effect, and fome months 
afterwards he died, with every appearance of a 
worn cut conta union. 
About t two ion after this gentleman's death, I was 
talking toa pump-maker, who, in the courfe of con- 
verfation, mentioned the corrofion of leaden pumps, 
by fome of the water in this town, and inftanced 
that at the houfe of Mr. S——, which he had re- 
placed with a wooden one about three years before. 
‘The lead, he faid, was eaten away, fo as to be very 
thin in fome places, and full of holes in others ;— 
this accidental Jalesmation Reems the pees. a 
for in fome oti by sae : 
fhall fuffer from it, whilft the reft receive it with 
impunity. In the fpring of the year 1776, I was 
defired to vifit Mrs. H. ; of §—— Park, who Z 
had repeatedly been attacked with painful colics, 
and had fuffered much from infuperable coftiver 1 
I fufpected lead to be the caufe of her complai 
but was unable to trace by what means it was tak 
She was relieved by the ufual methods; bu 
iths afterwards, I was defired to fe h 
her fuf fferin tes were the fame as s be fore 
| uefs, | the was n never in erfe 
