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thnt in a very little Time he muil inevitably have 

 gone Blind : Yet upon fuch KonVs being fold into 

 the Hands of a more generous Mailer, who was not 

 fo niggardly 'in his Allowances to the poor Beaft, 

 his Eyes have again become full and clear, and ac- 

 quired, in fome reafonable Tim.e, their former 

 Livelinefs and Vigour. 

 Mv.GHfoti's Mr. Glbfon, in his Book of Frtrr/^jrv, p. 67, has 

 Kcmark a- oj^g very good Remark, to wit, *' That Difeafes of 

 •y ** the Eyes fro?n 07itnx>ard Accidents^ become more or 



** lefs dangerous^ acco7-ding as the Hcrfe is in a good 

 ** or bad Slate of Health ivhcn fuch Accidents befall 

 ** himr 



This Remark is not only jufl: r.s to the Eye in 

 particular, but likewife in the Cafe of Wounds in 

 any other Part of the l^ody ; and when we fay fuch 

 Good Fkfh ^ ^^^ ^'^s gccd Flefh to heal, I cannot find there is 

 to heal, the any more in the Affair, than that fuch Perfcn is 

 Reafonof in a good State of Health, or that his Blood and 

 ''"• Juices areof a Balfamick or healing Nature or Qua- 



lity ; and this is every Day's Experience, to wit, 

 that in the recent or frefh Wounds, little m.ore need 

 be done (provided fuch Wound be in what we call 

 a fiefhy Part) than Binding it up in warm Blood ; 

 and by keeping it waflied once a Day v^ith any 

 Liquor, it is no matter what, whether Brandy or 

 Rum, or Milk and Water warm, the Wound will 

 heat as well, and much fooner than it would do by 

 the Application of Plaifters, O'.ntments, l^c. 

 And our Fore-fathers, not confidering the Reafon 

 of Things fo well as we do now> imagined frefh 

 The Folly ^^ green Wounds were cured by Sympathy, and 

 of prcrend- became fo far infatuated, as to dreis the Inftrument, 

 ing to cure or at leafl lap up in clean Linnen the Tool with 

 c^.^.^'Ji^'i^!'^ which the Wound was given, and by keeping fuch 

 Sjiiiyai ^y. jj^^^.yj^(,j^j. l^clOd up, and the Wound from the 



Air, thought it healed in a fhort Time. 



V/e have a great m.viy furprizing and even Ro- 

 mantick S<:ories, of the I'^icacy or \ irtue of a Pov.- 

 «ier, called the S}mpathetick. Powder, particularly 



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