1. On the Action of Water on Lead

Extract

After summarising the conclusions at which he had arrived from numerous experiments made more than forty years ago, as published in his Treatise on Poisons, and in the Transactions of this Society, the author alluded to various blanks left at that time in the inquiry which had not been yet filled up, and to various criticisms and doubts which had been recently expressed relative to the facts and principles formerly announced.