He says that “in a tumor which bore astrong resemblance to an osteocele, of a most intractable character,” the pain was soon relieved and the tumefaction disappeared, after the use of two globules ofplumbum, and then asks if the infinitesimal dose ofplumbum produced its resolution;[…]
1916 November 15, Fritz C. Askenstedt, “Some High Blood-Pressure Remedies”, inThe North American Journal of Homeopathy, 69th year, Chicago, Ill.: American Medical Union, published1921,page1117:
My experience withplumbum has not been extensive, and the results, so far, not very encouraging, but it must be admitted that my employment of this medicine has been in the most hopeless cases. The lack of uniformity of action ofplumbum, and the fact that the majority of a city population are daily subjected to its influence in minute doses through the water supply, may also account for an uncertainty of its therapeutic action.
2016, Muchlisyam, Jansen Silalahi, Urip Harahap, “Hemicellulose: Isolation and Its Application in Pharmacy”, inVijay Kumar Thakur, Manju Kumari Thakur, editors,Handbook of Sustainable Polymers: Processing and Applications, Boca Raton, Fla.: Pan Stanford Publishing,CRC Press,→ISBN,page330:
Rabbits were given 100 mcg of cadmium ions and 100 mcg ofplumbum ions orally every 2 days for 2 weeks and then as much as 3 cm3 of it was drawn. The total of 1 cm3 was used to determine the levels of cadmium andplumbum in the blood.
Traditionally connected toAncient Greekμόλυβδος(mólubdos,“lead”); however, this is repudiated by Beekes, who instead connects the Latin term toProto-Celtic*ɸloudom(“lead”).[1] De Vaan accepts this cognate pairing, but notes that the Latin and Celtic terms would have to be borrowed from asubstrate language due to phonetic mismatches if the Latin were inherited directly fromProto-Indo-European*plowdʰo-(“lead”).[2] Said substrate may beEtruscan,Iberian, or some other pre-Indo-European Mediterranean language; compareProto-Berber*būldūn.[2]
↑2.02.1De Vaan, Michiel (2008)Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill,→ISBN,page 474\head=plumbum
“plumbum”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
"plumbum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
