PHYSICAL anp LITERARY. 459 
ART. XXII. 
An Account of the Difeafe called Mill-Reek by 
the Miners at Leadhills, im a Letter from 
Mr Jamrs Witson, Surgeon at Durrif- 
deer, fo ALEXANDER Monro, P. A. 
N obedience to your defire, Ifend what I 
have obferved concerning the difeafe which 
the people at Leadbills call the mill-reck, and 
which all the inhabitants there are fubject to; 
but it moftly feizes, and violently affects the 
men whofe daily. bufinefs it is to melt down 
the lead... The melting-houfes, where this is 
done are called mills; becaufe the bellows 
there are worked by water-mills. 
In the flighter {tage of this difeafe, an un- 
eafinefs and weight is found about the fto- 
mach, efpecially near the cartilago enfiformis; 
and fometimes it appears like a cholic in the 
inteftines. The fpittle of the fick is {weet, 
and fomething of a blueifh colour, refem- 
bling what one obferves when he chews lead. 
—The pulfe is alittle low; the fkin is all over 
cold 
