O F S E R P E N T S. 57 



" violent; and when in his Toe, it made him roar out, but upon 

 " rubbing it there, it vanifh'd, 



" A young Woman being feiz'd with a great Pain and Weak- 

 " nefs in her Knees when a Girl, ufed divers Means to no ef- 

 " fedt : After fix or feven years time, Mr. Greafrix coming to 

 " Dublin^ he ftroak'd both her Knees, and gave her prefent - 

 " Eafe, the Pain flying downward from his Hand., till he drove 

 " it out of her Toes ; the Swelling that always attended it, did 

 *' in a fhort time wear away, and never troubled her after. 



" .... A certain Gentlewoman being much troubled with a 

 *' Pain in her Ears, and very deaf, Mr. Greatrix put fome of his 

 " Spittle into her Ears ; which, after chafing them, foon cured 



" her, both of the Pain and Deafnefs Her Uncle was cured 



*' by him of the fame Malady, and in the fame manner. 



" .... A Child, being extremely troubled with the King's- 

 " Evil, was touch'd by King Charles II. and was nothing better j 

 " but was foon and perfectly cured by Mr. Greatrix *." 



IV. The Hemorrhous Serpent is an Egyptian of the viperine 

 kind ; of fandy and bright Colour, enamel'd with black and white 

 Rays on the Back; flaming Eyes, corniculated Brows, and is - 

 defended by an Armature of rough and fliarp Scales ; which by 

 one is given as the Reafon of making fome Noife as it goes, 

 which another denies, becaufe it wants the Sonalia -f-. 



This Creature is little in Body, but great and terrible in its 

 Executions ; for when it wounds any Perfons, all the Blood in 

 the Body flows out, at all the Apertures of it, which is imme- 

 diately follow'd with Convulfions and Death ;|:. 



The Atlas from Ribeyro mentions an Indian Serpent of the 

 fame malignant Nature, whofe Poifon operates with fuch Vio- 

 lence, that the Perfon wounded by it bleeds at the Eyes, Noflrils, 

 Ears, and all the Pores of the Body, and the miferable Patient 

 is irrecoverable. 



I The 



* Lov:thorfs Phibfoph. Tra'nfi£fio-ns ahridgeii, vol. iii. p. it, 12. Edit. 2. Com- 

 municated by Mr. Thoresby, N. 256. p. 532. 16^^. In Pige 10. an account is 

 given ot the wonderful Effecfbsof Touch and Fridiion. 

 ■\- Cf.rct Sona'iilus. Kierembcrgiiis, p. 269. 



X Gylliiis, ^.iCn. Rati Synopfis Metb. 8vo. A. D. iC^T,. hiveuitur h ^gypto ^ 

 alia tucis quihitt Thonis imperavit. ibid, c^ in agris yucatevjibus. 

 Ar non ftare fuum mileris paffura cruore 

 Squamifcros ingens Hscmorhois. 



