wild FriBionj,^s unskilfully as they order themj do ftrangc 
things, hoth in pre/erving health, and cunngdifeafes i curing 
Cold and Chronical ones by FriBkn^^iS they do Ame ones^by 
VnHien, 
Ti^/W/yjThe learned Dr. jF^?^'»S^<35/<r,did notiong fince cocu* 
municate by fome Letters i Firfi, that he could make good 
proof of the curing or kiUing a very great and dangerous 
Wen (that had been very troublefome for two or three 
years,) by the application of ^dead mans hand, whence 
the Patient felt fuch a cold ftream pafs to the Heart, that it 
did ahuoft Gaufe in him a fit oi fwouning Secondly, ihzt^u^on 
his brothers knowledge, a certain Cook in a Noble Family 
oi Enoland (wherein that brother of his then lived ) having 
been reproached for the uglinefs of his M^^r/y hands, and 
return'd for an(wer3.that he had tried many remedies, but 
found none, was bid by his Lord, to rub his hand with 
that of a dead man*, and that this Lord dying foon after, . 
the Cook made ufe both of his Lords advife and hand, and 
fpeedilyfound good efFedl. (Which is alfo confirmed by what \ 
Mr. Boye relates in his lately mentioned Book^ otDvMar* 
t/^yV frequently fuccesfuJl trial! of curing fome Tumors 
or ExcrefcencicSj by holding on themfuch a Hand.) Here 
is FnBion or Touch^^to mortifie WenSj to drive away fwellings 
and Excrefcencies : And why not to repel! or diffipatc Spi- 
rits, thatmay have a dangerous influence upon the Brainy 
or other partsj as well as to call forth the retired ones into 
the habit of the Body, for Invigoration ? Thirdly, that a' ^ 
Gentleman, wlio came lately out of Ireland^hy. at his Houfe, I 
and informed him of an aged Knight there^ who having' 
great pain in his feer^. infomuch that he was unable to ufe* 
them, fuffercdj as he was going to bed, a loving SpanieB to^ 
Jtck his feet; which was for the prefe^nt very pleafing to himj 
fathathe ufed.it mornings and evenings^, till he found the' 
^aiu appealed, and, the ufe, of hiS: feet reftored,. Xhis^ faith. 
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