INTRODUCTION, KV 
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e garded, are medicines of great virtue, and fearce-_ 
‘‘ ly inferior to any that the Indies afford.” Lewis. | 
Mat, med. i. p. 343. 
Six or feven fpoonfuls of the decoction produce 
naufea and vomiting, and purge; not without, _ 
fome marks of a deleterious quality. HALLER hilt, n. 
330 from Acrial Infl:. 49, 5. 
The following is an abridged Ac COUNT of 
its ErrecTs upon Turkeys. , 
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M. Sarerne, a phyfician at Orleans, Seton heard 
that feveral turkey pouts had been killed. by being 
fed with Foxglove leaves, inftead of mullein, he 
gave fome of the fame leaves to a large vigorous — 
key ae te bird wa, dogmnurh, SHeded, that} he 
and his ‘excrement S_be came reddifh. Good: nou- 
rifhment reftored him to health in eight days. 
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Being then determined to puth the exbeinieue 
further, he chopped fome more leaves, mixed them > 
with bran, and gave them toa vigorous turkey cock 
which weighed feven pounds. This bird foon ap- ; 
peared drooping and melancholy ; his feathers ftared, 
his meck became pale and retracted. The leaves - 
were given him for four days, during. which | pee ; 
he took about half a handful. T 3 
been. saber about Fai days, and the winter was 
far advanced. _ 
