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standing the many proofs they adduce, I am still sus- 

 picious, that they are deceiving themselves. 



I learn from them, that the attacks of the disease 

 upon the brute creation are by no means equal to what 

 they have been for some years past, although no Cod- 

 fish has been used for their benefit. And I suspect, 

 that the same cause that has operated in favour of the 

 cattle, has relieved the people, and the Cod-fish has 

 accidentally got the benefit of it. 



In using this medicine, the Cod-fish is eaten by 

 the patient; some of it is steeped in water, with which 

 water the neck is washed, and some of the water they 

 drink. Lastly, some of the fish is bound on the neck, 

 over the part affected. 



Onondaga, April With, 

 1801. 



XII. Memorandum concerning the influence of Music on 

 the Common Mouse. Communicated to the Editor, 

 by Samuel Cramer, M. D. of Jefferson-County, 

 in Virginia. 



THE following circumstance was related to 

 me by a gentleman of undoubted veracity. 



One evening, in the month of December, as a few 

 officers on board of a British man of war, in the har- 

 bour of Portsmouth, were seated around the fire, one 

 of them began to play a plaintive air on the violin. 



