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low, the: pulfe intermits at every 3d or 4th 
{troke, and they die in a coma or apoplexy. 
Tue reek or fmoak rifing from the melting 
lead, is believed to be the caufe of this dif- 
eafe; becaufe the melters: who are: moft ex- 
pofed to the fmoak which comes out often, 
full in their faces, are moft fubje& to this: dif- 
eafe, the mill-reek.--The people here fay 
they have feen birds, in a calm moift day, 
‘attempting to fly thro’ the fmoak. of fach a 
chimney, fall down dead.---Cattle, which: 
pafture near to mills, are often killed; and; 
therefore fhepherds take great care to keep: 
their fheep at a diftance; which, if not by 
the fmoak, muft be hurt by the grafs, which. 
I often fee made blue by the fmoak falling 
on it. And other animals fuffer from: the 
water impregnated with the fumes, or with 
the lead wafhed in it. 
THe fymptoms in them are very like to 
what men fuffer. Dogs, in the laft ftage, lie 
either dull and ftupid, or bite and {natch at e- 
very creature that comes near them: nay, - 
they will gnaw and tear up the ground on 
which they lie, after they cannot raife them- 
felves on their legs. 
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