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parts thereabouts, and this was fo painful, 

 that I could hardly keep my hands from 

 it. It ceafed after I had warned my eyes 

 for a while, with very cold water. But 

 my eye-lids were very ftiff all that day. 

 At night the itching returned, and in the 

 morning as I awoke, 1 feit it as ill as the 

 morning before, and I ufed the fame reme- 

 dy againft it. However it continued almoft 

 for a whole week together, and my eyes 

 were very red, and my eye-lids were with 

 difficulty moved, during all that time. My 

 pain ceaied entirely ; ftervvards. About the 

 fame time, I had fpread the juice of the 

 tree very thick upon my hand. Three days 

 after they occafioned blifters, which foon 

 went off without affecting me much. 1 

 have not experienced any thing more of the 

 effects of this plant, nor had I any defire fo 

 to do. However I found that it could not 

 exert its power upon me, when I was not 

 perfpiring. 



I have never heard that the poifon of 

 this Sumach has been mort.il ; but the pain 

 ceafes after a few days duration. The na- 

 tives formerly made their flutes of this tree, 

 becaufe-it has a great deal of pith. Some 

 people affured me, that a perfon fuffering 

 from its noifome exhalations, would eafily 

 recover by lprcading a mixture of the wood, 



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