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A Letter Communicated from Mr. Thoresby F. R. 
to John Evelyn Efquire^ concerning the Cures 
done hy ^tn Greatrix the Stroke. 
SIR, 
A S to Mr. cJwmVs Cures, becaufe I was not wil- 
: ling to ttuft too much to my own Memory at 
tiiac diftance of Time (it being neai* lo Years nnce 
I faw himflroke any) I have not writ of ah^^. but fuch 
as lhave ftill fome Friends living wlio werfeEye-wit- 
nielfes as wefl as my felf, with whom I have cotapa'-* 
red Notes Yefterday, and give you nothing but what 
they think exadly trite. The firft I fliall' mention ^% 
my own Brother John d-^-h^ which both rfly Siftfeif 
and my felf remember to have been feized with a 
violent Pain in his Head and Back, whtn about 14 
Years of Age, one of my Sifters at that time had tlid 
SmlliPox, and my Mother judging th^t he was taken 
with the fame Diftemper, ufed no means to remove ir, 
till by accident Mr, Greatrix coming to oilr^Solire, arid 
heanng of his Illnefs, defired to fde him, hef ordered 
the Boy to ftrip him to his Shirt, which he did;, and 
having given prefent Eafe to his Head by only ftrok- 
ing it with his Hinds, he fell torlib his Batk, which 
he moft coniplained of^ \mt the Pain immediately 
fled from hh Hand to his right Thighs he followed 
it therer it fell- tb -his Knee> frornthendre to his Leg, 
but he ftill purfued it to his Ancle, thence to his 
Foot, and at 1 aft to his great Toe, as it fell lower, 
it grew more violent, efpecially when in his big Toe 
it made him roar out, but upon rubbing it there it 
vanidied, and the Boy cried out, 'Tis quite gone. It ne- 
ver troubled him after, biat he took the Small Pox 
above 
