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to larger quantities, and that the want of it, and the defire of 
taking it orcvv daily upon him. 
The tff^Sis it had on his health were, weaknefs, linall legs, 
gums eaten away, fo that the teeth ftood bare to the roots, his 
complexion was yellow, and he appeared older by 20 years than 
he really was. 
Opium is commonly taken by the mefTcngers in lurkv, who 
are employed in makinp, quick difpatches^ it is generally part 
of their provifion, they take it when they find themfelves 
weary, and it gives them ftrength and fpirit to proceed. 
The Turks ufe opium made up with fomething, that renders 
it palatable, at their feaft called Sah'dmy to make them cheer- 
ful 5 which may be one realon of its prevailing fo much j for 
finding that it then inlpires them with agreeable fancies, they 
are tempted to continue ir, and £b_it« ufe becomes neceflary, 
and grows upon them. 
T'he Effe5is of ftrong Imagination 5 by jDr. Cyprianus. phiL 
Tranl. N"* 221. p. 291. 
A Female child was born with a wound in her breafl, above 
four fingers long, it penetrated to the Mufculi intercofta- 
kSy and it was at leaft an inch broad, hollow under the flefh 
round about the wound j bcfides that, there was a contufion 
with a little fwclling at the lower part of the wound in the 
infide ^ the child came into the world without any violence, 
and confequently it did not receive this wound in its birth, but 
it was caufed by ftrength of imagination ; for about two months 
before, the mother had by chance heard a report that a man 
had murdered his wife, and vyith a knife had given her a great 
wound in herbreaft3 at which relation ihe changed, but not 
exceffively. 
Ir IS probable, that the child received the wound in its mo- 
ther's body at that very moment that (lie was affrighted, be- 
cauic the wound was very fordid, and the infide, as well as 
the outfide, was befet with flime, proceeding from the water 
wherein the child lies in its mother's womb, and it was alio 
like an old wound. 
Strange Beans frequently caft c.-fhore on the Orkneys j ly 
'Br. Sloane. Phil. Tranf. N° 2:.2. p. 298. 
THERE is an uncommon fort of beans thrown up in 
great numbers by the fea on the illands on the north-well 
parts 0^ Scotland, cfpecially thofe moftexpofed to the waves of 
the 
