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Description

Lead is used in building construction, lead-acid batteries, bullets and shot, weights, as part of solders, pewters, fusible alloys, and as a radiation shield. It was also used to create ceramics.

Includes Lead Ore and Lead Pig in the database.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead

A Compendium of Domestic Medicine, 1865

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Acetate of lead is listed by Savory as being an Astringent (Remedies Which Check Bleeding or Excessive Secretions) (412/391). Sugar of lead is also one of the medicines listed by Savory, however it is not provided with a classification.

Lead is listed as a mineral poison by Savory (he singles out Sugar of lead, Goulard’s extract, red lead, and white lead). If poisoning does occur from ingesting these leads, or if their ingestion does not result in full vomiting, Savory indicates that an emetic of sulphate of zinc should be used. “Epsom of Glauber salts, or magnesia, dissolved in mucilaginous drinks, should be taken every five or ten minutes; opiates, to allay the spasms of the bowels, the warm bath, castor oil, and purgative clysters, composed infusion of colocynth, aloes, or senna and salts, are also requisite.” (199/178)

Goulard’s Extract is a lead product. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goulard%27s_Extract

Remedies Containing or to be used with Lead

  • Sugar of Lead (167/146): astringent, “and must be used with great caution internally.” Combined with opium to stop pulmonary and uterine haemorrhages, and diarrhoea that lasts longer than two weeks (protracted). Externally it can be applied for the same treatments as Goulard Water.

Diseases Treated with Lead

General Diseases

  • Burns and Scalds (231/210): powdered lead mixed with powdered myrrh and lard makes an ointments that is to be applied should the earlier liniment of goulard’s extract, olive oil, and rose water produce too much pus.
  • Cholera Morbus (242/221): Dr. Graves uses and strongly recommends acetate of lead combined with morphia “to check the profuse watery evacuations”
  • Vomiting of Blood (280/259): astringents like sugar of lead, digitalis, or acetate of zinc are to be given if haemorrhages continue past initial treatments.