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" by rubbing them with fomewhat that after- 

 ■*' wards is put to wafte and confume, is a com- 

 *' mon experiment J and I do apprehend it the 

 ■** rather, becaufe of mine own experience. I ha^ 

 " from my childhood a wart upon one of my 

 *' fingers : afterwards when I was about fixteen 

 "** years old, being then at Paris, there grew upon 

 " both my hands a number of warts (at the leafl: 

 *' an hundred) in a month's fpace. The Eng- 

 " lifh Ambafiador's Lady, who was a woman far 

 ** from fuperftition, told me one day, fhe would 

 *' help me away with my warts; whereupon Ihe 

 ** got a piece of lard with the ikin on, and rub- 

 ** bed the warts all over with the fat fide, and 

 *^ amongft the reft, that v/art which I had had 

 " from my childhood; then flie nailed the piece 

 " of lard, with the fat towards the fun, upon a 

 ** poft of her chamber window, which was to the 

 *' fouth. The fuccefs was, that within five 

 "weeks fpace, all the warts went quite away^ 

 " and that wart which I had fo long endured for 

 *' company. But at the reft I did little marvel, 

 *' becaufe they came in a fhort time, and might go 

 *' away in fliort time again; but the going away 

 ** of that which had ftayed fo long, doth yet ftick 

 ** with me. They fay the like is done by the 

 " the rubbing of warts with a green elder ftick, 

 " and then burying the ftick to rot in muck*." 

 Thus far the great Lord Verulam. Upon this 



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