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CXIV The lntroduétion. 
difcolour’d Matter by Mouth fulls, and a perpetual Hiccough. 3% 
thought his Diftemper now fcarce curable, but advis'd him to take 
fome Drops of Elix, Propr, with fome Tinure of Arnotto or Achiotle, 
which he us’d to take for the Scone in Rhenifh Wine, This Tincture, 
(which is a fam’d Diuretic in thefe parts.) he took, but his Simenites 
perpetually following him, except when he had a lirtle Sleep, which 
was very fhort, he died. 
Of inter- Mr. Fletcher, twice in two Epidemical Conftitutions, fell into in- 
Fever’ termitting Fevers, which by the help of the Cortex Pernv. were 
both cured wichout returns, 
_ A Man Servant of his likewife very many Symptoms of a beour 
ee Confumption and Heétic, as great coughing, elpecially in the night, 
Fevers,and difficulty of breathing,¢xc. with thefe he had an intermitting Yertice 
a Cough, Fever. I gave him the Cort. Perav. as ufually, and he was not only 
releme8 freed of his Ague, but perfectly recovered of his other Symptoms, 
which I was apprehenfive would have been much more troublefome 
than the Fever. ‘Thus I have feen very often that feeming He@tics 
have been cured by the Bark. | 
A Negro Woman of his called Rofe, who us’d to be about the 
Houfe, and attend Children, grew Melancholy, Morole, Tacitura, 
and by degrees fell into a perfeét Mopifhnels or ftupidity, She 
would not {peak toany Body, would not eat nor drink, except whez 
forc’d, and if fhe were bid to do any thing fhe was wont to de, 
before fhe had gone aboutit, fhe would forget what her Commands 
Of Mad- were. If one brought her out to fec her about any thing, fhe would 
nae ftand in the Pofture fhe was left, looking down on the Ground, and 
if one further, as for inftance, put 2 Broom in her Hands to {weep 
the Houfe, there fhe ftood with it, looking on the ground very pea- 
five and melancholy. She had fallen into this the Full Moon be- 
ore I faw her, and had afterwards her Exacerbations alwayson Full 
or Change. I had her Cupt and Scarified in the Neck, ordered her 2 
very ftrong Purge of Extr. Rud, to be forc’d down her Throat. 
This did not work. 1 gave her fix Ounces of Vin. Emet. telling 
her ic was a Dram, which wrought pretty well with her. 1 gave 
her alfo, feveral days very ftrong Doles of Diagridium, or falap a- 
mongft her Victuals, which fometimes wrought none at all, and ac 
other times would work pretty well. Ina months time chere was 
much alteration for the better, fo that fhe was concluded not to be 
betwitched by her own Country people, which was the Opinion of 
moft faw her. This happens very often in Difeafes of the Head, 
Nerves or Spirits, when the Symptoms of them are extraordinary, of 
not underltood, to be attributed by the common People ro Wuch- 
crate, or the Power of the Devil. ffa fetida is uled in Exorcilms, 
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