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where it is, and feated in any part, 
not to be well come at for extirpa- 
tion, I think it 1s hardly to be ima- 
gined, but that the having it fucked 
clean as often as you pleafe, muft 
ceive great relief. Every body 
knows, that dogs licking of fores 
cures them, which is, I fuppofe, 
chiefly by keeping them clean. lf 
there is any credit to be given to 
hiftory, poifons have been fucked 
out, 
SOE Pallentia Vulnera lambit 
- Ore Venera trabens. 
are the words of Lucan on the oc- 
cafion; if the people to whom thefe 
words are applied, did their cure by 
immediately following the injection 
of the poifon, the local confinement 
of another poifon brings the cafe to 
a great decree of fimilarity. 
“© I hope I have not tired your lord- 
fhip with my long tale, as it is a true 
one, and in my apprehenfion a curi- 
ous piece of natural hiftory, I could 
not forbear communicating it to you. 
1 own I thought the ftory in the pa- 
pers to be an invention, and when I 
“* confidered 
