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CADWALADER, Thomas (1708 – 1779)

CADWALADER, Thomas (1708 – 1779)

1708 – 1779

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

Image source Charles Willson Peale · Philadelphia Museum of Art · Public domain

1745 CE

#2094

An essay on the West-India dry-gripes… to which is added, an extraordinary case in physick.

Cadwalader, an American pupil of Cheselden, left a classical account of lead colic and lead palsy. This was later shown by Benjamin Franklin, printer of the above work, to be due to the consumption of Jamaica rum whic…