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flavour to their creams and puddings. It has als<^ 

 been much in use among our drinkers of drams ; and 

 the proportion they generally use it in, has been one 

 part of Laurel-water to four of Brandy. 



*' Nor has this practice (however frequent) ever 

 been attended with any apparent ill consequences till 

 some time in the month of September 17^8, when 

 it happened that one Martha Boyce, a servant, who 

 lived with a person who sold great quantities of this 

 water, got a bottle of it from her mistress, and gave it 

 to her mother, Anne Boyce, as a very rich cordial. 



'' Anne Boyce made a present of it to Frances 

 Eaton, her sister, who was a shopkeeper in the town, 

 and who she thought might oblige her customers 

 with it. Accordingly in a few days she gave about 

 two ounces of the water to a woman called Mary 

 Whaley, who had bought some goods of her. 



" Mary Whaley drank about two-thirds of what 

 was filled out, and went away. Frances Eaton drank 

 the rest. Mary Whaley went to another shop to buy 

 iomewhat else, and in about a quarter of an hour 

 after she had drank the water (as I am informed), 

 she complained of a violent disorder in her stomach. 

 She was carried home, and from that time she lost 

 her speech, and died in about an hour. 



" The shopkeeper, Frances Eaton, sent word to 

 her sister Anne Boyce of what had happened, who 

 came to her upon the message, and affirmed that it 

 was not possible the cordial (as she called it) could 



