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that tlie venal blood might be emitted with the 

 greater impetus; after this, he took a young 

 land spaniel, about the same bigness, and pre- 

 pared his jugular vein likewise, that the descen- 

 dant part might receive the mangy dog's blood, 

 and the ascendant discharge his own into a dish : 

 he transfused about fourteen or sixteen ounces 

 of the blood of the infected into the veins of the 

 sound dog ; by this experiment there appeared 

 no alteration in the sound one, but the mangy 

 dog was, in about ten days or a fortnight's time, 

 perfectly cured ; and possibly this is the quick- 

 est and surest remedy for that disease, either in 

 man or beast." 



Hounds sometimes are bitten by vipers. Sweet 

 oil has been long esteemed as a certain antidote: 

 some should be applied to the part, and some 

 taken inwardly: though a friend of mine in- 

 forms me that the common cheese rennet, exter- 

 nally applied, is a more efficacious remedy than 

 oil, for the bite of a viper. They are 'liable 

 to wounds and cuts ; Friar's balsam is very 

 good, if applied immediately ; yet as it is 

 apt to shut up a bad wound too soon, the 

 following tincture, in such cases, may perhaps 

 be preferable ; at least, after the first dressing 

 or two : — 



