"37^ r Thoughts on Deajncfi. 



is the mind rolleved from terror in thofe whofe occupation 

 fubjefts them to the bite of the fnakes, from a well-grounded 

 confidence in the certain efficacy of the oil, and to which 

 every one may have inftant recurrence. 



The cafe, I am informed, has occiirred, where the oil fuc- 

 ceeded when given to a woman bitten by a mad dog, under 

 •ftrong fymptoms of hydrophobia j but at prefcnt I am not 

 fufficiently in pofleflion of particulars to warrant its com- 

 munication. 



I can hardly exxufe myfelf of criminal negleft in having f® 

 long omitted to make thus public this fovercign aniidote to 

 the worft of animal poifons. The knowledge of the efficacy 

 of the olive oil is abundantly diffufed in this county, and 

 partially in fome of the adjoining counties. 



The infertion of the foregoing particulars in your City and 

 Carolina Gazettes, muft make its invaluable properties gene- 

 rally known. 



With great eftecni, I am, Sec. 



Pendleton County, Julj> ^.^ 1798. J. MILLER. 



X. Thoughts on Deafnefs ; ivith a new MoJc of maVing 

 Deaf People hear. IFritlen l^th December 1798, hj/ 

 D. Whvxk, M.D. 



li'is Majejl/s Ship Atlas, 

 SIR, ^ Torbay, i.)th Augnjl I799t 



.AVING fecn in a late ncwfpapcr an account, copied 

 from vour ISIagazine, of a new mode of conveying founds 

 for the benefit of deaf pcrfons, propofcd by Profciior Blu- 

 incnbach, I have extniAcd from mv Medical Diary uhat I 

 wrote fome months ago on this fubjccl;. 



As mv ideas were formed without any knowledge of the 

 German difcoven', you will oblige me much by giving them 

 a place in your very valuable Mifcellany. 



I am, Sir, your humble fervant, 

 '"'The Editor of the •\^ ' D. WHYTE, 



T hihfoph'ical Magazine, J IT 



