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Of Venomous Bites, from 



mercuria 

 method 

 recom- 

 mended 

 for the 



Drjamesjs The following merciirial method having 

 been found fuccefsful, both in dogs and 

 men, we here recommend it as a remedy 

 for horfes, and indeed think it more to be 

 depended on than mod others. Dr. James 

 has given a full account of it in the Phi- 

 lofophical Tranfadlions, from which, for 

 the lake of the curious reader, we give the 

 following abftrad. 



*« About Michaelmas 173 r,Mr. Floyer, 

 of Hants, complained, that he was 

 afraid of a madnefs amiOng his fox- 

 hounds ; for that morning one had 

 run mad in his kennel : the Doflor 

 took this opportunity of telling, that 

 he had long believed, that mercury 

 would, if tried, prove the bed remedy 

 againll this infe6lion. Mr. Floyer neg- 

 le^led this advice till the February fol- 

 lov/ing : mean time he tried the me- 

 dicine in Bates, commonly known by 

 the name of the pewter-medicine, as 

 alfo every thing elfe that was recom-' 

 mended to him by other fportfmen, 

 but to no purpofe •, for fome of his 

 hounds run mad almofl: every day 

 after hunting-, upon this he took his 

 hounds to the fea, and had every one 

 of them dipt in. the fait water •, and 



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