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XXXIV. A Letter from Richard Pulteney, 

 M. D. F. R. S. to William Watfon,. 

 M. D, F. R. S. concerning the medicinal 

 Effetls of a poifonous Plant exhibited iriftead 

 ef the Water Parfnep. 



Dear Sir, 



Read July 9, QOME circumftances having lately 

 1^3 come to my knowledge, relating to 

 the effects of a poifonous plant, I thought them 

 rather too remarkable not to merit further notice ;; 

 and, I addrefs them to you with the more propriety* 

 as you have already laid before the publick fome ob- 

 fervations * concerning the deleterious qualities of 

 the plant in queftion, which holds a diftinguifhed 

 place among the poifonous ones that are indigenous 

 in Britain. 



Mr. H — — n, an attorney of this place,, now up- 

 wards of forty, at the age of fifteen, began to be 

 affected (after taking cold upon violent exercife, as 

 he thinks) with what is ufually called a fcorbutick 

 diforderj which fhewed itfelf more particularly on, 

 the outfides of his arms, about the elbows, and on 



* See Philofophical Tranfa&ions, Vol. XLIV, p, 227. and 

 Vol. L. p. §56. 



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