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fame Time an Ounce of either the Or-x-ietan or 

 Vemce-Treacle in Wine ; the next Day anoint 

 agiin and exhibit half an Ounce of the fame 

 Remedy. After which untie the Garter, chafe 

 the Leg with Spirit of Wine, few a Cloth dipt 

 in the fame Spirit about the Swelling, and after 

 that rubjhe Part with the D«/J.', Ointment to 

 all wage the Swelling." 

 I have look'd over the Ointment which he isVinersFat 

 pleafed to '^yl^ the Duke^ s Ointmertt, and find it excellent 

 compounded of Linfeed-Oil, Flowers of Sulphur ^°^ the Cure 

 and Hog's Lard, or HoriVs Greafe, which latter Sor't °;,3^BT,^.e^- 

 ^iv miham fancies mull be belt; though in the '" 



mam there is fcarce any Difference in the EfFeds of 

 the Fat of Animals, I mean Quadrupedes ,• but Vi- 

 per s Fat IS of all others the molt penetrating, and 

 wiiat no large Family fliould be without, feeing it 

 has moll Right to claim fomethina extraordinary in 

 cunng not only the Viperine Poifon infliaed by a 

 i5ite, but hkewife all other venomous Bites : for 



't7s ''J?^^fTu ^^. ^^^P"^^ ^^ be made but the 

 deadly Mifchiefs following fuch Bites proceed from 

 the fmall and pointed SpkuU contained in the juices 

 or bah-va in the Mouth. And of this any one may 

 be convinced upon looking at the Venom of feveral 

 noxious Ammals with aMicrofcope, when the fame 

 IS iloatmg upon a C/.///« -Saucer or the like 



Dr. Mead enraged a Viper, and caufed it to bite 

 a young Dog m the Nofe fo hard, that both the 

 7eeth were ilruck deep in : Hehowl'd bitterlv, and 

 hePart^egantofwell; but upon Application of 

 ff^^--ung^a or Fat of the Viper, which was ready 

 at Hand, he was very well the next Day : But leaft 

 It might be thought that the Dog's licking his Nofe 

 mi^ht cure him, he was bit a fecond Time in the 

 1 ongue, and upon forbearing the Remedy, he died 

 in four or five Hours after the Bite. The fame Trial 

 vvas n.ade with like Succefs upon other DogT Bu 

 or afuUand truly fatisf^dlory Account of Poifons 

 t muH reier the Reader to the Dodor'. EiTav on that 

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