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ably minified, to be embrocated wifh 

 warm olive oil, and gave her internally, 

 every hour, a bolus ex Theriacd Androm. 

 cum Camph. with frequent draughts of 

 a decodtion from Virginia Snake-root, 

 Seneca, and wild Valerian. This was 

 about noon, and the feverifh heat foon 

 became confiderably augmented ; but in 

 the evening all the fymptorrxs were fub- 

 fided, and the next morning {he return- 

 ed to her labour. Whether this treat- 

 ment was of any fervice I am unable to 

 determine, having never had an oppor- 

 tunity of feeing, or even hearing, of a 

 fubfequent cafe of this kind. 



The Scolopendra, Centipee, or 

 Centipedes, tho' its name implies an 

 animal with an hundred legs, has yet 

 only forty ; that is twenty on each fide, 

 difpofed in pairs. Its body is about fix 

 inches in length, and five lines in 

 breadth, flattifh, of a brown copperifh 



colour. 



