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being beaten and taken is a most present and sure Remedy 

 for Poyson and the Plague," we are told, though surely 

 this can only be on the principle that the patient being 

 killed off by the cuckoo-pint is troubled by the plague no 

 more, since the weaker poison succumbs to the stronger. 

 It resembles too much the prescribing of a good strong 

 dose of prussic acid as a remedy to cure arsenical poisoning. 



