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medicine chcll- When boiled however with the feme 

 quantity of water, or inful'cd in it when cold, its lltengtli 

 is fupcrior, ami hi taltc for more agreeable. 1 1 

 nre drawn ofF by fpirits, they c<iual thai I had from the 

 Hall, and in four cafes fat cafy upon the lUimach, 

 when the other did not. As many of our people 

 unhappily laboured under a feverc ague on our re- 

 turn, I thought that a proper opportunity of trying 

 thctr cflefte ; for, whatever may be advanced to the con- 

 trary, experience lias taught me that in many initanccs 

 Bark is highly fcrviccable in this dUbnkr. Having ii> 

 loftcd two people with the fame fymptoim, 1 gave it to 

 them Id ecpul dofes, and by the ufc vf Tceamcz Bark 

 oncrccovercd a week before the other- 1 tried it again— 

 the difference was five days. I had only an opportunity of 

 repeating it a third time, and it was feven. But 1 would 

 not « ifh to 1* underftbod as if I thought thefe few cafe* 

 ■ftcttain its fupcrior cffccls with certainty- 

 That mull be left W future experiments, and to gentlemen 

 of greater penetration, and who have more ample op- 

 portunities of making them than the writer of this arti- 

 cle can pretend to pollcfs. 



All the trees 1 far grew on the fide of a hill, and in a 

 dry barren foil. The mould was of a red colour intcr- 

 mixed with finall iloix i, 



■ppcared at the fun-' 

 that! examined WW covered more than two Inches by 

 the earth- None of them were in bloom In 



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