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until his death, which occurred about five o’clock, A.M., on the 
twentieth day, November 11th. 
On analysing the liver, indications of the presence of lead 
presented themselves. 
This animal weighed, at the commencement of the experi- 
ment, 28 lbs. 12 oz., at the conclusion; 21 lbs., having lost 7| lbs. 
Dr. Alfred S. Taylor said, it was very satisfactory to him to 
find that the conclusions which had been come to by himself and 
the other medical jurists appointed by the Government were 
substantiated by the results which had just been communicated 
to the Meeting. He and his coadjutors were unanimous in the 
opinion that lead in all its forms was injurious to health when 
administered continuously, and they thought it a great fallacy to 
assume that those compounds which are insoluble in water are 
therefore innocuous. He had no doubt the subject of the use of 
salts of lead in the manufacture of sugar would shortly be 
brought under the notice of the Legislature, in which case he 
should feel justified in urging upon their notice the importance 
of the results of Mr. Greaves’s experiments. It could not be 
doubted, after the experiments which had been made, that had 
Dr. ScofFern’s process been allowed to be practised without in- 
terference, there would, ere long, have been hundreds of cases 
of lead colic throughout the country, resulting from the use of 
sugar containing sulphite of lead. He might state, with refer- 
ence to the report of the medical jurists, that the opinions they 
had expressed were perfectly unbiassed ; neither they, nor the 
Government by whom they were engaged, having any other 
motive than that of protecting the public. 
Mr. Bell stated, that he had received a letter from Mr. Brande, 
in reference to an observation made at the preceding Meeting, 
in which he was represented as having concurred with Dr. 
Gregory in designating sulphite of lead as perfectly innocuous. 
Mr. Brande said that he had not intended to convey such an 
impression by what he had stated in the communication referred 
to. Pharmaceutical Journal, Dec. 1850. 
EPIDEMIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
[Abridged from “ The Lancet .”] 
Monday, *ld December, 1850. — Dr. BABINGTON, President. 
The first meeting of the session was held this evening. 
About one hundred members and visitors were present. Dr. 
Babington observed, that the circumstances under which this 
Society originated might not be known to many present. It 
