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you, he fiiall never be able to hurt you ; fo if you write the fol- 
lowing figures in like manner upon the left-hand, 2, 9, 2, 7. — ($•, 
3, (J, 5. — 8, 3, 8, I. — 4, 5, 4, 7 — with turmeric, and wafh it 
off with fair water of the Ganges, and drink it, this will cure 
all venomous bitings • they have many fuch ridiculous fancies, 
all which they feem to have borrowed from the Cabala of the 
SaracenSi which is full of fuch like fooleries: Mr. Marjhal 
heard a 'Br amine fay, that if fome of the pieces or knots of the 
cloth (in which a woman has been burnt with her husband) be 
faved and made up in the form of a wick, and fitted for a lamp, 
and lighted, and let in a dead woman's fcull, that it would make 
the dead party appear 1 this the 'Br amine faid he had done; 
when they have any mad perfons amongft them, they take them, 
and put them into a clofe room, juft big enough to hold them, 
and fmoke them almoft to death, with muik: and other cold 
fmells, which loon reilores them to their right mind, and fo 
recovers them, ^c. 
There happened two things in our voyage, which was very 
obfervable ; the firft was, that all the tornadoes brought a deal 
of rain with a ftenchj and if the feam.en did but lay their 
cloaths by for 24 hours, they became all full of little maggots 5 
the fecond was, when we came out of Europey we took in Ibme 
water at St. jfago's ; and when we were almoft at our journey's 
end, our cooper going with a candle to open one of the calks, he 
had no fooner done it, than the water immediately took fire, and 
burnt his face, hands and fingers 5 but turning fuddenly about, 
he quenched it, by fetting his breech thereon 5 the water alio 
ftunk pretty much at the fame time, but afterwards it came to its 
native fweetnels, ^c, 
A triple Bladderj by M. Buffiere. Phil. Tranf. N° 2<j8. 
P- 752- 
IF the bodies of fuch as die of extraordinary diftempers were 
often opened, perhaps it would be found, that thofe cffe^ls, 
which had been attributed to the alteration of the blood, or hu- 
mours, do merely depend on an extraordinary conformation of the 
parts of the body j an inftance of which, there was a triple 
bladder found in the body of one Mr. Booth -^ we have been told 
of a double bladder found in the bodies of fome men (as there 
was in the body of the famous Cafaubon) but M. Buffiere never 
met with any author, that mentions three urinary bladders 
Found in one perfon. 
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