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maintaitijthat the vindicative Spirits can pafs through a body 
io fulid,as Teeth arCjcfpecially fince the little teeth have been 
found by Experience to caufe as dangerous efFecSls^ as the 
^r^i^^ones, after chat thefe had been broken out: And that 
therefore it may be juftly doubted, whethe r by the faid bread- 
crums all the (alivalliqaor about the teeth of an animal alive 
could be taken away 5 as it may be truly affirmed ^ thacthc 
Vipers- teeth are iiiceffantly plunged into their flieaths, and 
do there continually fill themfelves with the /aid Juice* 
But he efteems withall^that in hot Countries this hquor may 
work alone, when conveyed into our flefli by the t^eth of a 
dead Viper^or even with anEar-picker, into a wound 5 as it 
Goaies to pafs in Italy and in hot Countries 5 but in France and 
in colder parts^efpecially fuch vipers being ufed as are kept in 
tuns and brought from a far off^ihe faid juice not being ftrong 
enough r^Ione^ needs to be made keen by the bilious breath 
of the angred Viper. 
And here the Author exfpatiateth into a difcourfe. to (hew, 
that without recurring to a vindicative fpirit, paffing through 
a fliarp teeih as through a needle, the cholcrick breath of 
an iwctVi^^i. viper may exceedingly invigorate that hquor^and 
prove a ferment to thefame^ \\kc fomQ j^ffiatus maligms ^ 
Halitm ^^/^r^Where, among other particulars^ hcfpeaketh of r 
Gardiner^ who upon the grafting of his Trees, never found 
more than half the grafts to thrive 5 of which at laft this caufe 
was difcoveredjthat he fl:ill took together two grafts to inocu* 
!ate,of which he firft grafted that which he held in his haod,and 
then the other which he held in his mouth.which having rotten 
teeth, did taint the fweetnefsofthe vegetative Juice in thefe- 
Gond grafCj which was always found withered .away. To which 
he addsjiow certain breaths of wind corrupt meat^ efpecially 
when it thunders and lightens ; how the exfpirations of fome 
aien and animals, when corrupted, do the like y and that one 
may be particularly fenfible of the breath of a man in dioll-er, 
and that the bite of a redhaired perfon is venomousjmoreoverj 
that if a man having waflied his mouth with vinegar breaths 
into a bottle^the wine put into it Will foivre^and that a butchers 
boy having eaten oignons and garlick, or having rotten teeth, 
the beef or mutton by him blow'd upon the night before^ will 
