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OF SERPENTS. 57 



" violent i and when in his Toe, it made him roar out, but upon 

 " rubbing it there, it vanifh'd. 



*' A young Woman being feiz'd with a great Pain and Wcak- 

 nefs in her Knees when a Girl, uied divers Means to no ef- 

 fe(St : After fix or feven years time, Mr. Greatrix coming to 

 Diibli72, he ilroak'd both her Knees, and gave her prcient 

 Eafe, the Pain flying downward from his Hajid^ till he drove 

 '' it out of her Toes; the Swelling that always attended it, did 

 *' in a fhort time wear away, and never troubled her after. 



" .... A certain Gentlewoman being much troubled with a 

 *' Pain in her Ears, and very Deaf, Mr. Greatrix put fome of his 

 " Spittle into her Ears; which, after chafing them, foon cured 



'* her, both of the Pain and Deafnels Her Uncle was cured 



" by him of the fame Malady, and in the fame manner. 



" .... A Child, being extreamly troubled with the King's- 

 *' Evil, was touch'd by King Charles II. and was nothing better; 

 *' but was foon and perfedlly cured by Mr. Greatrix *." 



IV. The Hemorrhous Serpent is an Egyptian of the viperine 

 kind; of fandy and bright Colour, enamel'd with black and white 

 Rays on the Back; flaming Eyes, corniculated Brows, and is 

 defended by an Armature of rough and (harp Scales; which by 

 one is given as the Reafon of making fome Noife as it goes, 

 which another denies, becaufe it wants the Sonalia -f*. 



This Creature is little in Body, but great and terrible in its 

 Executions; for when it wounds any Perfons, all the Blood in 

 the Body flows out, at all the Apertures of it, which is imme- 

 diately foUow'd with Convulfions and Death J. 



The Atlas from Ribeyro mentions an Indian Serpefit of the 

 fame malignant Nature, whofe Poifon operates with fuch Vio- 

 lence, that the Perfon wounded by it bleeds at the Eyes, Nofi:rils, 

 Ears, and all |:he Pores of the Body, and the miferable Patient 

 h irrecoverable. 



I The 



* Lowthorp's Philofoph. Tranfa£lions abridged, vol.iii. p. il, 12. Edit, 2. Com- 

 municated by Mr. 7^i3r^%, N. 256. p. 332. 1699. Ill Page 10. an account is 

 given of the wonderful Effedls of Touch and Fridion. 

 ■f- Caret Sonalibus. NierembergiuSy p. 269. 



t Gyllius, p. 261. Rait Synopfis Meth. 8vo. A. D. 1 693. Invmitur in /Egypto ^ 

 alsis hcii quibus Thonis imperavit. ibid. & in agris Jucaten/tbus, 

 At non ftare fuum miferis paffura cruore 

 Squamiferos ingens Haemorhois, 



