White lead

The following happens to the one who drinks it: his tongue turns white, his limbs relax, a strong cough and hiccups begin, his mind becomes darkened, his body and brain become cold, which also dries out, and the patient loses consciousness. Sometimes he feels a tartness in his throat and feels that his uvula and tongue are rough and dry. There is pain in his stomach, a burning sensation in the stomach, pain at the entrance to the stomach, the hypochondrium is tense and breathing is constricted, and this sometimes leads to suffocation; the patient’s body turns white, and he often urinates black liquid or blood.

It is the same as the treatment for lead oxide. They give them scammonium resin in honey-sweetened water and diuretic medicines, do enemas and do not allow them to sleep. The emetics for such a patient include chamomile oil, iris oil and narcissus oil, and the medicines for him include plum gum and a potion with elm blood. It is also useful, by the way, to eat sesame by the handful, chewing it and washing it down with wine.