[345]. For July, 1813.
[346]. Numb. xxxi, 22.
[347]. System of Chemistry, 4th edit. 1, 274-277.
[348]. De Architectura, lib. viii, c. 7.
[349]. Researches into the Properties of Spring water, with Medical cautions against the use of Lead, by W. Lambe, M.D. &c.
[350]. A case is recorded, wherein a legal controversy took place, in order to settle the disputes between the proprietors of an estate and a plumber, originating from a similar cause—the plumber being accused of having furnished a faulty reservoir; whereas the case was proved to be owing to the chemical action of the water on the lead. Dr. Lambe states an instance where the proprietor of a well, ordered his plumber to make the lead of a pump of double the thickness of the metal usually employed for pumps, to save the charge of repairs; because he had observed that the water was so hard, as he called it, that it corroded the lead very soon.
[351]. Van Swieten ad Boerhaave Aphorism. 1060 Comment.
[352]. Libro supra citato, p. 24.
[353]. Duncan’s Med. Comment. Dec. 2, 1794.
[354]. See the papers by Sir George Baker, in the first volume of the Medical Transactions of the College of Physicians, viz. “An Inquiry concerning the Cause of the Endemial Colic of Devonshire,” p. 175.