Devon colic

<h2 id="poitou-colic">Poitou colic</h2>
<p>An illness with identical symptoms was described from <a href="/facts/Poitou/0IneyHsA">Poitou</a> in western France in a work of 1616 by François Citois.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> It was known in English sources as Poitou colic. It was likewise demonstrated to be a form of lead poisoning in a 1757 publication by <a href="/facts/Th%C3%A9odore_Tronchin/39atpVCC">Théodore Tronchin</a> of <a href="/facts/Geneva/14gXxjcq">Geneva</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a>
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<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050210212836/http://www.devon.gov.uk/etched?_IXP_=1&_IXR=100676">Etched on Devon's Memory</a> - paper from Conference of Healthcare Librarians, 1996</li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Alick Cameron, ‘Musgrave, William (1655–1721)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004 <a href="/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography" target="_blank">/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Franciscus Citesius, De novo et populari apud Pictones dolore colico bilioso diatriba (Poitiers, 1616) Online edition <a href="http://fondosantiguos.com/obra/189/de-novo-et-populari-apud-pictones-dolore-colico-bilioso-diatriba" target="_blank">http://fondosantiguos.com/obra/189/de-novo-et-populari-apud-pictones-dolore-colico-bilioso-diatriba</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>T. Tronchin,  De colica Pictonum (Geneva, 1757) Online edition <a href="https://archive.org/details/decolicapictonum00tron" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/decolicapictonum00tron</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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Devon colic