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hand to his knee, from thence to his leg, ancle and foot, and « 
at lad to his great toe^ it made him roar out 5 but upon rubbing 
it there, it was quite gone, and it never troubled him after- 
wards, but in about three weeks time he got the fmall-pox. 
Mrs. 2)- when a girl was fiezed with a great pain and 
weaknefs in her knees, which occafiond a white fwelling 5 fhe 
was troubled with it for fix or feven years, and having m that 
time ufed divers means to no purpole, Mr. Greatrix flroaked 
both her knees and gave her prefent eafe, the pain flying down- 
wards from his hand, 'till he drove it out of her toes, and the 
fwelling was gone in a fhort time, and never troubled her af- 
terwards : A gentlewoman being, after a fever, much troubled 
with a pain in her ears, and being very deaf, Mr. Greatrix put 
ibme of his fpittle into into her ears, and turning his finger in I 
them, he rubbed and chaffed them well, which cured her 1 
both of the pain and deafnefs: Mr. Charles L ; ;/ was 
cured of the fame malady, having very much loft his hearing 5 
till Mr. Greatrh by ftroaking reftored it : Mrs. S n 
being extremely troubled, when a child, with the king's-evil, 
was fent to London to be ftroaked in King Charles the 11. time, 
but was nothing the better, yet Mr. Greatrh perfectly cured 
her : One ^ierfon a fmith had two daughters extremely trou- 
bled with the king's-evil, the one in the thigh, and the other in 
the arm, Mr. Greatrix cured them both 5 one of them was heal- 
thy ever after, was the mother of feveral children, and never 
had any fymptoms of it afterwards. 
Where Mr. GreatrLs: ftroaked for pains, he ufed nothing 
but his dry hand^ in ulcers and running fores he ufed fpittle 
on his hand and finger 5 and for the evil, if they came to him 
before it was broke, he ftroaked it, and ordered to apply a 
poultefs of boiled turneps every day, till it grew ripe for 
launcing; then he launced it, and with his fingers fqueezed out the 
cores and corruption, and in a few days it would be well with 
only ftroaking it every morning; but if the evil was broke be- 
fore the patient came to him, he only fqueezed out the cores 
and healed it by ftroaking : Such as were troubled with firs of 
the mother, he would prefently take off the fit, by only laying 
his glove on their head, but never cured the diftcmper tho- 
roughly, for the fits would return 5 he cured many of the fal- 
ling ficknefs, provided he could fee them in 3 or 4 fits, elfe 
he could not cure them. 
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