DISEASES CLASS I. 2. 4. 8. 



itingand fever attend this. Fourthly, it is diftinguifhed from 

 cholera, becaufe that is accompanied with both vomiting and di- 

 arrhoea. And laftly, from the colica epileptica, or hyfteric col- 

 ic, as that is liable to alternate with convulfion, and fometimes 

 with infanity ; and returns by periods. 



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

 Opium one grain. Spice. Volatile alkali. Warm fomenta- 

 tion externally- Rhubarb. 



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

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

 increases after meals, and gradually becomes more permanent 

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

 mufcles of the arm, fo that the hand hangs down, when the 

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

 increafe of heat. The feat of the difeafe is not well afcertain- 

 ed ; it probably affects fome part of the liver, as a pale bluifh 

 countenance and deficiency of bile fometimes attend or fucceed 

 it, with confequent anafarca ; but it feems to be caufed imme- 

 diately by a torpor of the interline, whether this be a primary or 

 fecondary affection, as appears from the conftipation of the 

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

 quence of the great (limulus of lead previoully ufed either inter- 

 nally for a length of time, or externally on a large furface. 



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

 his milk in leaden cifterns, ufed to wipe off the cream from the 

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

 fond of cream, licked it from her finger. She was feized with 

 the faturnine colic, and femi-paralytic wrifts, and funk from 

 general debility. 



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

 and bruifed her leg and thigh ; and applied by ill advice a folu- 

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

 for about a fortnight. She was then feized with the colica fa- 

 turnina, loll the ufe of her wrifts, and gradually funk under a 

 general debility. 



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

 fyftem ; in the cyder counties of this country this difeafe has 

 been frequently almoft epidemic from the ufe of fome lead about 

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

 of weak cyder. This difeafe has been fo frequent in fome of the 

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

 rected for thofe, who ufe lead to deflroy the acidity of wine. 



There is a bad cuftomin almoft all families and public houfes 

 of warning out their bottles by putting a handful of (hot corns 

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



lead 



