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lived became Lame and Gouty ; another with 

 Quick-Silver died ia about Sixteen Weeks 

 time, Confumptive, and I difcovered Quick- 

 Silver in the Impofturaated parts of hisLungs. 

 Qtiery^ Whether feme Perfons that have been 

 Flux^'d, or ufed Quick-filver Oyntments, and 

 the like, and afterwards become confump- 

 tive, owe not their Diftemwer to the abu- 

 live ufe of a 1 i»i oft excellent Remedy ? Much 

 after the fame manner, the fiibtile Quick- 

 Silver getting into the Mafs of Blood by 

 degrees, through its ponderollty fettles in 

 the Lobes of the Lungs, and caufes Ulcers 

 there. But to return : The Poifon of Vi- 

 pers and Mad Dogs I fuppofe kill by thick- 

 ning of the Blood, as many Malignant Fe- 

 vers, alfo do; in all which Cafes, I look on 

 Volatil Salts to be the propereft'^Phyfick, as 

 keeping the Blood from congealing. - I had a 

 iingular Inftance hereof in a Gentleman of 

 Tork^JInre^ bit with a Grey-Hound on the 

 Thurfday^ not three Minutes before the Dog 

 died Mad j he bit him in feveral places of 

 the Hands, as he was giving him a Remedy: 

 The Monday following the Gentleman was 

 very ill, and came to our Town to an Apo- 

 thecary his Acquaintance, who knowing not 

 what to do, defired my AfTiftance. When I 

 came, the Gentleman could talk, but every 

 two or three Minutes he had violent Fits, 

 and would tell us when they were over, that 

 his Brains worked like Birm in an Ale-Fat, 

 and feemed to Froth up at every Fit. The 

 Apothecary had no Volatile Salt of Vipers ; 

 fo I took the Volatile Salt of Amber,' and 

 ordered him Ten Grains in Treacle- Water 



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