j%0 On the Cure of Affdlions ivhich 



IN the year 1794 I publiflied a fmall pamphlet* contaui- 

 Jno- an account of the efficacy of mercury in removhig tht- 

 eflefts of the poifon of lead on the conftitution of thofe em- 

 ployed in working with that metal. As the pradice then re- 

 commended feenis to me to have engaged lefs attention than 

 its importance merits, I wifli here to recapitulate, as briefly 

 as pofFible, the fafts then dated, and to add fuch further 

 obfci-vations as my i'ubfcquent experience lias fuggefted rela- 

 tive to the fubieft. 



I hardly need ftate to you the great number of perfons 

 who, in the courfe of their occupations, are employed about 

 this poifonous mineral ; nor how large a proportion of thefe 

 fuffer the agony of colic, followed, in many cafes, by the lols 

 of the ufe of their limbs, difqualifying them, in a fliort time, 

 from earninc: their fubfillencc. The white-lead manufaclo- 

 Ties, the work-fliops of the plumber, tiie glazier, and the 

 painter, afford too manv proofs of the truth of this. The 

 Irequcnt inefficacy of the ordinary methods of treatment in 

 thofe cafes is well known. The fuggeftion, therefore, of u 

 inode of relief more powerful than thefe, and, in recent 

 cafes, ahnoll certain, mult be allowed to be a thing of no 

 inconfiderable moment. Such a remedy, I venture to fay, 

 will be found \xi~merairy . At the time of publilhing m^ 

 former remarks on the fubjcft, I had tried its powers in eight 

 inftances only, in all of which it afforded the moll (trik- 

 ing relief. The truth of this, I (hould obfervc, did not then 

 reft on my own teitrmony alone, but was confirmed by that 

 of the Phvficiaris of the D:jpenjary, my colleagues at the time. 

 The trials which T have lince made and witnefied, though uot 

 invariably attended vyith fuccefs, have afforded ample proof 

 of the powers of the remedy in qucltion, which Dr. Bradley, 

 now Phvfician to the AVVihuiuder Hofpital, aid not hefitate, 

 ifi his letter to me on t!.e fubj';6l, to call & Jjucific in thofe 

 diforders. 



The affections con ^Tinlv iiiJaced on the body by the 

 ppifon of lead are, vjoient colic, with obftinate coftive^efs, 



* Account of a new and ccefsful Method of treating thofe Affcftions 

 which urifi; fiom the Poilbii of Lead. Printed for Bocfcy, Broad ftreet, 

 JLondop.. 



relicvable 



