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invade the place of his back, in which posture he had so large a belly, that 

 though one of our company had one of a considerable size, yet it seemed lank 

 compared with his ; he turned his face into all shapes, so that by himself he acted 

 all the uncouth, demure, odd (aces of a qiiaker's meeting ; I could not have 

 conceived it possible to have done what he did, unless I had seen it ; and I am 

 sensible how short of a full description I have given of him. He began young 

 to bring his body to it, and there are several instances of persons that can 

 move several of their bones out of their joints, using themselves to it from 

 children. 



On the strange Effects of the Papaver Corniculatum Luleum,* &c. By Mr. 



Jas. Neivton. N° 24'2, p. 2()3. 



In my journey from London to Margaret Island, and thence by the sea-shore 

 to the Land's End in Cornwall, to observe what plants were produced between 

 Penzance and Marketjew, on the sandy shore I found abundance of papaver 

 corniculatum lutt-um, or horned poppy, with a yellow flower, vulgarly called in 

 Hampshire and Dorsetshire squatmore, or bruiseroot, where they use it against 

 bruises external and internal. Mr. John Hancock, an apothecary in Penzance, 

 gave me the following account of its effects on Charles Worth, and others of 

 bis family, at the halfway-house between Penzance and Marketjew, viz. that 

 Charles Worth causing a pie to be made of the roots of the poppy, supposing 

 them to be sea holly or eryngo roots, of which by order of a physician, they 

 had made pies, which were very pleasant ; that eating of the poppy pie, while 

 hot, he was presently taken witli a delirium, which made him fancy that most 

 things he saw were gold, such as while earthen ware and pewter, &c. being 

 purged at the same time very much. The man and maid servants having also 

 eaten of the same pie, stripped themselves quite naked, and so danced against one 

 another a long time, being also purged. A child in the cradle having also tasted 

 of the pie was much purged. And thus they continued for some days, and then 

 became well. 



Concerning several Stones voided by a Boy, &c. By Sir Robert Sibbald. 



N° 242, p. 204. 



A rare case has occurred to me in the person of a boy, in the 13th year of 

 his age. The boy had the misfortune 4 weeks ago to fall backwards upon a 

 stone, against which the hinder part of his head was struck with such force, 

 that he lay for a quarter of an hour without sense, and the next day vomited 



* Chelidonium Glaucium. Linn. 



