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one's Words too clofe or crowded, it is (like all 

 other Diieafes of the Body ) to be removed by its 

 contrary, which is a flow and ftudied Utterance or 

 Delivery of Speech. And fo far I am fatisfy'd that 

 I could eafily make any Perfon ftammer, whom I 

 kept Company with, provided they did not keep a 

 good Gur.rd upon themfelves, and were apprized of 

 the Trick before-hand. 

 Squinting Squinting may be eafily cured, if the Perfon will 

 xurcd. ^j^iy confent to wear a Mask over the Forehead, 



with two Pieces of Leather, or any Thing fet to it 

 in the Shape of Pipes or Tubes, about three or four 

 Inches long, to look thro' in the Day-time, and in 

 the Night to have the Eyes tied up with a Hand- 

 kerchief: But then this Method muft be purfued 

 for fome confiderable Space of Time, otherwife 

 there will be a Relapfe, and according as the De- 

 feft has been of a longer or fliorter D.ite, fo does 

 it require a Continuance of the Ufe of the Mask. 



I have fometimes ordered a very large Nofe of 

 Pafteboard to be fix'd to fomething over the Fore- 

 head, which has entirely cured People of Squint- 

 ing ; for the main Bufmefs is to keep the Eyes part- 

 ed fufficiently, fo that they may not (as it were) 

 crofs one another, by the Right Eye's looking at an 

 Objeft upon the Left, and the Left Eye upon one 

 on the Right Hand : Therefore 'tis bcfi not to look 

 upon an Ob j eft even before you, when troubled 

 with this Defeft, but rather to turn the Head a little 

 fideways ; foj^ the Nofe mull be an exceeding big 

 one to part the Eyes in two, if one look upon an 

 Objeft right forward. 



I Ihall now proceed to give my Opinion of Colds, 

 or what the Farriers term Morfound; ing. 



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