NOTES. 



NOTE 



A. 



S. W. was some 3"ears ago affected with severe cough, expecto- 

 ration, night sweats and other complaints, to such a degree, that he 

 was supposed hy his friends to have a puhncnary consumption, and 

 to he rapidly declining. One day being intently thinking on some 

 subject which interested him, he involuntarily took a sharp comb, 

 which lay upon the shelf, near which he was standing, and scratched 

 his head with it briskly. He observed that a very great quantity of 

 dandruff fell from his head, and he was led in consequence of it, to 

 comb it thoroughly and frequently, and by this means all his hectical 

 symptoms left him, and in a few weeks he perfectly recovered. 



NOTE B. 



In the month of February 1775, a young genileman aged aboui 

 21 years, lay very sick of a fever, in his father's house.^ — he had 

 been sick about a week, and was unable to raise his head from the 

 pillow without fainting. At this time, he overheard some one of 

 the family mentioning that one of tlie mobs so frequent at that 

 time, and which grew out of the disorderly spirit of the country, 

 and were gathered from several of the neighboring towns, bad 

 threatened to pull down his father's house, and were already on their 

 march fur that purpose. His father had left the town, and his eld- 

 est brother was sick in the house, of aiiotlier disease. On hear- 

 ing this intelligence, and realizing the situation of the family, he 

 he instantly sprang from his bed, dressed himself, barred the doors 



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