462 ESSAYS anv OBSERVATIONS 
Tue people at Leadbills are fo averfe to o- 
pening of dead bodies, that I could never 
prevail upon them to allow me to open any 
who died of this difeafe. But, in a dog 
who had it, I found /udge* lying on the in- 
ner coat of the {tomach and inteftines; and, » 
in feveral parts, it was turned to a cruft.— 
The guts were much inflammed in fome_ 
places, and in others a mortification was begun | 
with holes thro” them.—His feces were very 
hard; and, where they were of little quan- 
tity, the coats of the guts were thick, and, 
the paflage thro’ them lefs. 
Ir proper medicines are given in the fir 
ftage of this difeafe, the patient generally 
recovers.—If it goes on till giddinefs begins, 
the fuccefs is doubtful; and when the cure 
is delayed to be attempted a little longer, the 
difeafe almoft conftantly proves mortal. : 
Ir the work-people at Leadbills would ufe 
the following precautions, they might fave 
themfelves from this difeafe, at leaft would 
have it very mild. 
1. No man ought to go to work fafting; and 
he ought to take oily or fat food: the Engl/h 
mill- 
* The fine particles of lead which fubfide flowly in water, 
in which lead has been wathed. \ 
