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come foft, clean, and well conditioned, and, as he 

 lias repeatedly affured me, he got then into a much 

 better conditioned ftate, then he had experienced for 

 many years before. 



From fir ft to kit, this juice never purged him ; 

 though he fays, even in its reduced dofe, it never failed 

 to occasion a dizzinefs of the head, a naufea, and 

 ficknefs, which were not infrequently fucceeded by 

 a vomiting, that always inftantly relieved his head. 



From the middle of April to the middle of June, 

 he defifted from the ufe of the juice, but, in its ftead, 

 drank every morning -for breakfaft, the infuiion of 

 the leaves of the fame plant, which, he fays, is 

 like common bohea tea. The infuiion feldom oc- 

 calioned naufea, or ficknefs, but always brought on a 

 fmall degree of vertigo, and in a flight manner pro- 

 duced the effects of intoxication from liquor. 



In June he went to Harrowgate, as he had de- 

 signed in the fummer before. Upon firff. drinking 

 and bathing there, he thought himfelf worfe; and 

 his eruptions, having gradually increafed during the 

 two months that he ftaid in that place, he was 

 convinced that thofe waters were of no real fervice to 

 him. On his coming home, he returned to the ufe 

 of the inluiion, and he affures me, that he again 

 found, even by that weak preparation, a very fpeedy 

 alteration for the better. From that time, he con- 

 tinued it ever lince, until his ftock of the herb was 

 exhaufted j his fkin is now fo very little affected, that 

 lie has but here and there, upon his arms and legs, a 

 very fmall appearance of his diforder. 



Upon queftioning him relating to the fenflble 

 qualities of this medicine, he fays again, that he 



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