rHYSICAL AND LITERARY. 5w 



Art. XXII. 



An Account of the Difeafe r^Z/.^MUl-Reek ^| 

 • ' the Miners nt Leadhilh, in a leuer from 

 Mr James Wilson, Suigcon nt Durif 

 deer, ro Alexander Monro, P. A, 



T N obedience to your defire, I fend what 

 •*- I have obferved concerning the difeafe 

 which the people at "LeadhlUs call the Mill- 

 reek, and which all the inhabitants there 

 areVubjeato; but it moftly feizes, and 

 violently affeds the men whofe daily bufl- 

 nefs it is to melt down the lead. The 

 melting houfes, where this is done, are 

 called JVr////-, becaufe the bellows there are 

 worked by water mills. 

 ' In the flighter {\age of thl<^ difeafe an 

 uneahneft and weight is found about the 

 ftomach elpecially near the cartilagn enfU 

 formis\ and fometiraes it appears like a 

 chohc in the inteltines. The fpitde of the 

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