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head ; which is fucceeded by an infeafi')!' 

 lity and delirium, like madnefs of the 

 worft kinii ; in i'o much chat they tear 

 their own flefh, and bite their hands ; the 

 ex'^remities tremble, and are convulled : At 

 laft, they fall low the pulfe inrer-nits at e- 

 very 3d or 4th ftroke, and they die in a 

 coma or apoplexy. 



7'he reek or fmoak rifing from the 

 melting lead, is believed to be the caufe of 

 this difeafe; becaufe the meliers, who are 

 moft expofed to the fmoak, which comes 

 out often full in their faces, are moft fub- 



jed to this difeafe, the Mill reek The 



people here fay they have feen birds, in a 

 calm moift day, attempting to fly through 

 the fmoak of fuch a chimney, fall dowa 

 dead. — — Cattle, which pafture near 

 to mills, are often killed; and there ore 

 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 fal- 

 ling on it. And other animals fufFer from 

 the water imprepjnared with the fumes, or 

 with the lead walhed in it. 



The 



