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women were taken ill, but to prevent any 

 bad confequence, took a vomit immediately, 

 and no ill efFedts enfued *. 



Dr. Madden faw Anne Boyce twenty-four 

 hours after her deceafe, but he could not 

 obtain leave from her friends to open the 

 body. She was about fixty years of age, 

 her countenance and fkin appeared of a na- 

 tural colour, and her features were not al- 

 tered. The abdomen was not fwelled, nor 

 was there any other external mark of poifon. 



Another accident of the fame kind hap- 

 pened in the town of Kilkenny : a young 

 gentleman, fon to Mr. Evans of that place, 

 miftook a bottle of laurel water for ptifan. 

 It is uncertain what quantity he drank, but 

 be died in a few minutes. This affair was 

 not much regarded at that time, becaufe he 

 laboured under a diftemper to which, or to 

 an improper ufe of remedies, his death was 

 attributed by thofe about him -f*. 



* Phil. Tranf. N-4I8. p. 84. 

 t Ibid. p. 48. 



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