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IV, An AhflraB of a Letter from Mr. Samuel 
Dale, to Dr. Wiliiam Briggs, M. D. F. R. S. 
Concerning a Contamdcious Jaundife, accom- 
pankd with a "z/ery odd cafe in Vi(7on. 
Bra:ntree,Oc}.\.hQijth. iC^l- 
SIR, 
HAT you might not think me unmindful of my 
J,, promiie to you when you were at Eraintree ; I 
have here ftnt you the Account of my Patient Grace 
^Demu, Braxjied Magna, in this County of Effex^ 
which you did defire of me. 
:. About Chrjjlmofy Amo 1689. After much grief and 
trouble of Mind in the foregoing Autumn, the* Jaundife 
began to appear upon her for which, after having for 
about nine Months ufed many Medicines, which were 
told her by divers of her Friends and Acquaintance, 
but withnout Succefs : She in September, 1 69 0. appiyed 
her fe!f /to me, to whom I adminiftred divers Medi- 
cines, famous in the moft Celebrated Authors for" the 
cure of the Jaundife, and which I had often ufed with 
Succefs in the cure of that Difeafe, yet to her they were 
of no Benefit: After which ilie had the Advice of fe- 
veral Learned Phyficians in theCountrey, and hkewife 
of fbme in X(?;^^«?;^,- but all that could be done for her 
hath not yet had any Effect Jor her Difeafe yet continues ; ^ 
and her Body w hich ufed to be plump and flelhy, is now 
become lean and emaciated^ almoft like a Skeleton, and 
her Appetite IS litde and depraved. 
In AfJyi69i* after an extraordinary 
for t*bout three Months, (lie began as icon as the Sun 
was downj 10 be deprived of her Sight by degrees un- 
til it was q iiie dark ; when akho never fobig a fire or ^ 
many candlci» were in the Fvoom, yet could fhe not dif- 
cern 
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