HO DISEASfe* CLASS I. 2. 4. S. 



ing and fever attend this. Fourthly, it is distinguished from 

 cholera, because that is accompanied with both vomiting and 

 diarrhoea. And lastly, from the colica epileptica, or hysteric 

 colic, as that is liable to alternate with convulsion, and sometimes 

 with insanity; and returns by periods. 



M. M. Spirit of wine and warm water, one spoonful of each. 

 Opium one grain. Spice. Volatile alkali. Warm fomentation 

 externally. Rhubarb. 



8. Colica saturnina. Colic from lead. The pain is felt about 

 the navel, is rather of an aching than acute kind at first, which 

 increases after meals, and gradually becomes more permanent 

 and more acute. It terminates in paralysis, frequently of the 

 muscles of the arm, so that the hand hangs down, when the 

 arm is extended horizontally. It is not attended with fever, or 

 increase of heat. The seat of the disease is not well ascertained; 

 it probably affects some part of the liver, as a pale bluish coun- 

 tenance and deficiency of bile sometimes attend or succeed it, 

 with consequent anasarca; but it seems to be caused immedi- 

 ately by a torpor of the intestine, whether this be a primary or 

 secondary affection, as appears from the constipation of the 

 bowels, which attends it; and is always produced in conse- 

 quence of the great stimulus of lead previously used either inter- 

 nally fora length of time, or externally on a large surface. 



A delicate young girl, daughter of a dairy farmer, who kept 

 his milk in leaden cisterns used to wipe off the cream from the 

 edges of the lead with her finger; and frequently, as she was fond 

 of cream, licked it from her finger. She was seized with the 

 saturnine colic, and semi-paralytic wrists, and sunk from gene- 

 ral debility. 



A feeble woman about forty years of age, sprained her ancle, 

 and bruised her leg and thigh; and applied, by ill advice, a solu- 

 tion of lead over the whole limb, as a fomentation and poultice 

 for about a fortnight. She was then seized with the colica sa- 

 turnina, lost the use of her wrists, and gradually sunk under a 

 general debility. 



There are various means by which lead finds its way into the 

 system; in the cider counties of this country this disease has 

 been frequently almost epidemic, from the use of some lead about 

 their mills, or by the pernicious use of it to correct the acidity of 

 weak cider. This disease has been so frequent in some of the 

 wine countries, that in France the punishment of death is di- 

 rected for those who use lead to destroy the acidity of wine. 



There is a bad custom in almost all families and public houses, 

 of washing out their bottles by putting a handful of shot corns 

 into them, and by shaking them about forcibly, by which the 





