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carry their diffimulation fo far, that they 

 adk the farce on thernfelves when they are 

 difordered - y a pra&ice, which has not a 

 little contributed to overthrow all doubts 

 of the fincerity of their pretenfions. 



Thefe exorcifms are ufually repeated 

 every night, during the increafe of the 

 patient's indifpofition ; but after a favour- 

 able change, or crifis, has happened to 

 the difeafe, the Peii pretends to extract 

 the" caufe of the diforder, by fucking 

 the part which has been moft painful, or 

 moft affe&ed, and then pulls out of his 

 mouth either fi(h~ bones, thorns, fnakes 

 teeth, or fome fuch fubfiance, which he 

 has before concealed therein, but which 

 he pretends were malicioufly conveyed 

 into the aftedted part .by the Yowa- 

 boo. The patient then imagines himfelf 

 cured, and the influence of imagina- 

 tion not a little accelerates his recovery. 

 During this time, however, they do 



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