io 6 The Statural Hijlory 



who as Pliny k tells us, was but two foot high and a hand bredth ; 

 but he tells us not whether Conopa* were at his full growth, or had 

 good/ymmetry of parts like our Philippa, it being common enough 

 for perfons to be very low of ftature, when either their Bo- 

 dies are awry, or fome of their parts difproportionable to the 

 reft. 



10. And amongft fuch accidents as thefe, we may reckon a 

 ftrange difiafe that befel Mary the daughter of John Collier of Bur- 

 ford- who out of the corners of her eyes excluded a fort of con- 

 gealed matter, which after fome time turned jnto zflony kind of 

 fubjiance, not unlike the slones, as they were defcribed to me, that 



fomtimes come forth of the tumor called Atheroma : which I 

 therefore guefs to have been only a more exalted kind of Mgilops, 

 or fiftula lachrymalit, and not to have been caufed by fajcination, 

 as Lachmund ' thinks the flones were that came forth of the left eye 

 of Margaret the daughter of Conrad Brandk of Banteln, (lie be- 

 ing cured of the difeafe by that eminent Oculisl Dr. Turbervil of 

 Sarum. 



1 1 . Yet a much ftranger accident than that befel one Rebeckah 

 Smith, the Servant-maid of one Thoma* White of Mintfer Lovel, 

 who being of a robuft conftitution, though fhe feldom eat flefh 

 (it fcarce agreeing with her) and above 5 o years of age ; after 



fie came from the Communion on Palm-funday , April 1 6. Anno 

 16 71. was taken with fuch a drynefs in her throat, that (lie could, 

 not fwallow her frittle, nor any thing elfe to fupply the decays 

 of nature : and in this czftfie continued without eating or drink- 

 ing, to the amazement of all, for about ten weeks-, vHi to the 

 29 of June, being both St. Peters, and Witney '-fair day : by which 

 time being brought very low, her majter enquired and found out 

 zperfon who gave him an Amulet (for it was fuppofed^e was be- 

 witch'd) againft this evil ; after the application whereof, within 

 two or three days time (though I dare not fuppofe there was any 

 dependence between the medicin and difeafe') (lie firft drank a lit- 

 tle water, then warm broaths in fmall quantities at a time, and 

 nothing elfe till Palm-funday again twelvemonths after, when (he 

 began to eat bread and other food again as formerly (lie had done, 

 and is now about the age of ftxty, and ftill living at the fame place 

 ready to teftifiethe truth of the thing, as well as Tho. White and 



k Nat.Hifi. lib. 7. cap. 16. ' Fied. Lachmundi, 'Qp*-n%*$.f.cl. 3.W/22. 



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