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was hard and fwelled, particularly oa 

 the right fide, it was very painful, and 

 covered with a number of; finall ulcers, 

 and appeared ragged, and as if it was 

 threatning to become cancerous. I ad- 

 vifed him to take firft a dofe or two of 

 cooling phyfie, and afterwards to drinlc 

 daily a quart of the Lilbon diet-drink, 

 made according to the above receipt. 



He began the ufe of the decodlion the 

 1 2th of October > and, after drinking a 

 few bottles, he found himfelf fenfibly 

 relieved ; and, by the time he drunk 

 twenty-nine, all the ulcers were gone ; his 

 tongue was reduced to its natural fize ; 

 he felt no uneafinefs or pain ; and he had 

 all the appearance of having received a 

 perfe(5l cure. After this, he took no more 

 medicines ; and I did not fee him till the 

 8th of December, when he came to return 

 me thanks for his cure ; when his tongue 

 was perfedly clean and fofr, and feem- 

 cd, in every refpedl, like to the tongue 

 of a perfon inperfed health; and he faid, 

 it had been in that (late for above four 

 weeks ; and he had not the leaft fymptoni 



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