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travelling Yorkfhire tradefman. I found him incef- _ 
fantly vomiting, his vifion indiftiné, his pulfe forty — 
ina minute. Upon enquiry it came out, that his 
wife had ftewed a large handful of green Foxglove — 
leaves in half a pint of water, and given him het 
liquor, which he drank at one draught, in order to 
cure him of an afthmatic affection. ‘This good wo- 
man knew the medicine of her country, but not — 
the dofe of it, for her hufband narrowly efcaped 
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<akdimbnble that this jade inede nib exhibiting : 
the Foxglove has been more general than I am at — 
prefent aware of; but it is wonderful that no author 
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