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*' fon at Utrecht, and had a bruifed clove of garlic laid to the place that 

 " was burnt, and covered witli a large plaister of diapahna, to keep it 

 " fixed there ; and when this was done, feeling no more pain, and tread- 

 " ing ftill bolder and firmer upon it, I cut a flipper to let in my foot, fwel- 

 " led as it was, and walked half a dozen turns about the room, without 

 " any pain or trouble, and much to the furprize of thofe that were about 

 " me, as well as to my own. 



" For the pain of the burning itfelf, the firft time it is fliarp, fo that a 

 " man may be allowed to complain : I refolved I would not, but that I 

 " would count to a certain number, as the bed meafure how long it lafted. 

 " 1 told fix fcore and four, as fafl as I could ; and when the fire of the 

 " Moxa was out, all pain of burning was over. The fecond time was not 

 " near fo fliarp as the firft ; and the third was a great deal lefs than the 

 " fecond. The wound was not raw as I expefted, but looked only fcorched 

 " and black ; and I had rather endure the whole trouble of the operation, 

 " than half a quarter of an hour's pain in the degree 1 felt it the firft whole 

 " night. 



" After four-and- twenty hours I had it opened, and found a great blifter 

 '' drawn by the garlic, which I ufed no more, but had the blifter cut,, 

 " which run a good deal of water, but filled again by next night ; and 

 " this continued for three days, with only a plaifter of diapalma upon it : 

 " after which the blifter dried up, and left a fore about the fize of a two- 

 " pence, which healed and went away in about a week's time longer ; but I 

 " continued to walk every day, and without the leaft return of pain, the 

 " fwelling growing ftill lefs, though it were near fix weeks before it were 

 " wholly gone. I favoured it all this while more than I needed, upon the 

 " common opinion, that walking too much might draw down the humour; 

 " which I have fince had reafon to conclude a great miftake, and that if I 

 " had walked as much as 1 could from the day the pain firft left me, the 

 " fwelling might have left me too in a much lefs time. 



" I paired that fummer at Ninieguen, without the leaft remembrance of 

 " v/hat had happened to me in the fpring, till about the end of SepteQiber, 

 " and then began to feel a pain, I knew not what to make of, in the fame 

 " joint, but of my other foot : I had flattered myfelf with hopes that the 

 " vapour had been exhaled, as my learned authors had taught me, and 

 " that thereby the bufinefs had been ended : this made me negleft my 



