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proper, on account of their heating quality, and that 

 for the following reafons : 



T^. Becaufe magnefia being perfe61:ly mild and 

 infipid, it fits eafy on the ftomach, while the others 

 are conftantly rejcded. 



idly. It operates in fo gentle a way as to dinninifli 

 the inflannmatory difpofition, which the others tend 

 only to exafperate. 



2tdly. As an abforbent earth, it coirefls the acri- 

 mony of metallick poifons by decompofing them, 

 and is perhaps the only cathartick that poflefTes 

 this property. 



After this treatment, fhould any relicks of the 

 poifon remain, which however is not very probable, 

 the liver of Julphury as recommended in the prece- 

 ding eflay, or a courfe o^ Bath Water Sy accompanied 

 by a milk and mucilaginous diet, will, it is pre- 

 fumed, feldom fail to compleat the cure. 



It may not be improper to obferve that the above 

 method is not confined to verdigris^ or poifon of 

 coppery but is equally applicable to other mineral 

 poifons, as thofe of lead, glafs of antimony , corroftve 

 fublimate, cobalt^ and perhaps arfenick itfelf. This 



laft. 



