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CXI. Some Obfervations on the Hijiory of 
the Norfolk Boy. By J. Wall, M. D. 
hi a Loiter to the Rev. Charles Lyttelton, 
LL. D. Dean of Exeter. 
S I R, 
Read Dec. 14, r ■ 'HE hidory of the Norfolk Boy, 
1 which, you inform me, has been 
communicated to the Royal Society, feems to deferve 
a place in the memoirs of that illudrious body, as 
well on account of its utility, as its Angularity. 
The fymptoms in this cafe mod; evidently arofe 
from worms in the intedines ; which often occafion 
unaccountable complaints, and frequently elude the 
mod powerful medicines, as they did in the indance 
before us, till at lad they were didodged by the enor- 
mous quantity of oil-paint, which the poor boy de- 
voured ; and the caufe being thus removed, all the 
effects ceafed. 
At fird fight it appears wonderful, that this im- 
menfe quantity of white lead did not prove fatal - 9 
and that it was not fo, could be owing to nothing but 
the oil, by which it was enveloped, and its contact 
and immediate adtion on the coats of the intedines 
thereby prevented. But the oil did not only obviate 
the dangerous effedts of this mixture, but appears, to 
me at lead, to have been the chief caufe of the fuc- 
cefs, with which it was happily attended. I fpeak this 
with feme redridtion, becaufe the lead, as its ftvptici- 
ty was thus covered, might, by its weight, aflid in 
removing 
