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coming to Dublin, lie was brought to her, where he stroked both her knees, 

 the pain flying downwards from his hand, it drove it out of her toes ; he gave 

 her present ease, and the swelling in a short time wore away, and never troubled 

 her after. One Mrs. L — e, who after a fever was much troubled with a pain 

 in her ears and very deaf, came to Mr. Greatrix, who put some of his spittle 

 into her ears, and turning his finger in them rubbed and chafed them well, 

 which cured her both of the pain and deafness. Mr. Charles L — n was cured 

 by him of the same malady, having much lost his hearing by some accident, till 

 Mr. Greatrix by stroking restored it. Mrs. S — a when a child, was extremely 

 troubled with the King's evil ; her mother sent her to be stroked in King Charles 

 the 'id's time to London, but she received no benefit ; yet Mr. Greatrix per- 

 fectly cured her. One Pearson, a smith, had two daughters extremely troubled 

 with the evil, the one in her thigh, the other in her arm ; he cured them 

 both. 



I could add many things of this nature, both of what I have seen and heard 

 from my mother, who was much more with him than myself, but wanting room 

 shall only tell you, that where he stroked for pains, he used nothing but his 

 dry hand; but for ulcers or running sores he used spittle on his hand or finger; 

 and for the evil, if they came to him before it was broke, he stroked it, and 

 ordered them to poultice it with boiled turnips, and so did every day till it grew 

 fit for lancing ; he then lanced it, and with his fingers would squeeze out the 

 cores and corruption, and then in a few days it would be well, with his only 

 stroking it every morning. Thus he cured many who continue well to this 

 day; but if it were broke before he saw them, he only squeezed out the core, 

 and healed it by stroking. Such as were troubled with fits of the mother, he 

 would presently take off the fit, by only laying his glove on their head, but 

 never cured the distemper thoroughly, for the fits would return. I have heard 

 he cured many of the falling sickness, if they stayed with him, so that he might 

 see them in 3 or 4 fits ; otherwise he could not cure them. 



jiccount of Books, viz. — 1. Geography Anatomised, or the Complete Geographical 

 Grammar. Being a short and exact Analysis of the ivholc Body of Modern 

 Geography, after a neiv and curious Method, id Edit. By Pat. Gordon, M. A, 

 F. R. S. N° ^56, p. 335. 



The principal design of this treatise is to give a compendious and methodi- 

 cal tract of modern geography. It consists of two parts, whereof the first has 

 a general, and the second a particular view of the terraqueous globe. 



