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believe xhn Afclepias is an Aiexipharmicfc, becauftitis 
fo like to Dogsbane, indeed it is a Species thereof, and 
becaufe Phyficians never prefcribe it alone. 
In the Twentieth he gives us more Antidotes againfl; 
the Biting of the TarantoU of Apulia, And here he 
difcourfes concerning Signatures, which he approves^ 
and gives us Signatures of feveral Plants of his own Ob- 
ftrvationi which as f can make no g>^eat Account of, (o 
neither do I utterly rejedi. 
The Oiie and Twentieth contains (ome Infl:ances of the 
Strange EfFeftsof a kind of Fear or Terror, called by the 
Sicilians^ Scanto; the like to which, excepting tho(e I 
fiifpeft to be fabulous, are fometimes occafioned by 
Frights with us. He difcourfesin this Obfervation con- 
cerning the inward Uft of Cantharides ; and tells us. 
That in the upper Hungary they give them to Men bic« 
ten by a Mad Dog, from One to Five, and tobeafts in 
a greater Quantity, in Spirit of'Wine, Therzaca or 
Crums of Bread 5 and that after the Ufe of them, thofe 
bitten do not make bloody Urine. Others affirm that 
they are of much Ufe in the Gonorrhea, He tells us, 
That all the Phyfitians and Aromatarii he had confblred, 
agree in condemning the inward Ufe of them. But yet^ 
.-after all, he predids, That Cantharides will have the 
fame Fate with Mercury and Antimony^ w^hich after va- 
rious Cenfures and Oppofitions, at laft found Credit 
with thofe very Phyfitians which at firft defamed them, 
and abhorred the life of them as dangerous and Mifchie- 
vous. 
The Title of the Two and Twentieth is concerning 
Obftruftions, Fktufes, Intemperies of the Liver, and a 
Periodical Folvulus or Twifting of the Guts, 
The Three and Twentieth's concerning regular Peri- 
ods of the Ague and other Difeafes ; here he diicourfts of 
the Root Ndr/f*^, celebrated by iho, Bartjjoltne for the 
Cure 
