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peans who ftood by thoughr him dead, Blacks thought him be- 
witch’d, and others were of opinion that he was poytond. I ex- 
amin’d matters as nicely as I could, concluded that this was a new 
ftrange Difeafe, fuch as I had never feen, or was not mention’d by 
any Author I had read, or that he Counterteited it. Being confirm’d 
that ic was this latter, and that he could {peak very well it hepleas’d, 
to frighten him out of it, I told the Standers by, that in fucha de- 
{perate condition as this “twas ufual to apply a Frying-Pan with 
burning Coals to the ¢rown of the Head, in order to awake them 
throughly, and todraw from the Head, and that it was likewife an 
otdinary method to put Candles lighted to their Hands and Feet, that 
when the flame came to burn them they might beawaked. I fene 
two feveral People in all: haft to get ready thefe things, in the 
mean time leaving him, that he might have time to confider and 
recover out of this fit of Diffimulation, which in a quarter of an hour 
he did, fo, that he cametofpeak. I queftion’d him about his pain, 
he told me’cwas very great in his Back. I told him in fhort that 
he was,aDiflembler, -bid him. go and do his bufinefs without any 
more ado, or elfe he fhould: have due Correction, which was the 
beft Remedy I.knew for him, ‘he went) about his Errand imme- 
nich and perform’d ic well; though he came too late for the 
irats. 3 ; ipa 
Iwas call’d to a Carpenter, alufty Rogue, who pretended him- 
felf fick of the Belly-ach, he had got a Blanket about his middle, 
and made wry Faces, bemoaning himfelf very much. He told me, 
upon examining of him, that he went to Stool very well ever 
day, and did not Vomit, ¢c. I told him that I believ’d he diffembled, 
and that if-he were-.well chaftis'd, ic would be his beft Cure, he 
Keen ha to be of that-mind; | but ivery-foon xecover'd without any 
1y.Lick.. POR: AR CA Se YEO 
_ "Tis very ordinary for Servants, both; Whices:and Blacks, to pre- 
tend, or diffemble ficknefs of feveral forts, but they are very eafily 
with attention found out by Phyficians, who are ufed to converie 
with Difeafes, for the Symptoms do not anfwer one another, and 
they may, by proper queftions be difcovered as Forgeries, Perju- 
ries, or Lyes. In people who pretend ficknefs, and have none. [ 
usd, in order to be rid of them, (they never growing betrer,) to 
order harfh, yet innocent Remedies, as bliftering, taking bitter Me- 
dicines, ve, “Thus Ij ufed.to be free’d- of their trouble, Sometimes 
they pretend to have aCough, but that is eafie to be fen, if feigned, 
by a more leifurely great: infpiration than thofe real! ch 
that Difeae can admit of, | y cake 
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