[372]. The art of making wines, from fruits, flowers, and herbs; all the native growth of Great Britain, by William Graham, late of Ware in Hertfordshire.
[373]. See “Some experiments made upon Rum, in order to ascertain the cause of the colic, frequent among the Soldiers in the island of Jamaica, in the years 1781, and 1782”; by John Hunter, M.D. In the Medical Transactions, vol. 3, p. 227.
[374]. Annales de Chimie, tom. lvii, p. 84. Memoire de M. Proust.
[375]. Cerusse was in great request among the Roman ladies as a cosmetic.
[376]. The manufacture of this colour was long kept secret; but its consumption has lately been greatly lessened by the introduction of the artificial Chromate of Lead, which is a yellow of much greater brilliancy than the muriate of that metal.
[377]. See Repository of Arts, vol. viii, no. 47, p. 262.
[378]. Med. Trans. vol. 2, p. 445.
[379]. See a paper in the Medical Transactions, vol. 2, p. 68, “Of the Colica Pictonum,” by R. Warren, M.D. &c.
[380]. Paulus Ægineta is the first writer who has described a species of Colic terminating in Paralysis. (Lib. iii, c. 18, 43.)
[381]. Poitou, this late province in France was divided at the revolution into the three departments of Vendée, Vienne, and the Two Sevres.