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To encreafe the Value of this Antidote with the 
People, when the Experiment is made on Dogs; to 
that Dog which they would have dy of the bite of the 
Viper 5 he gives with the Antidote a quarter of a Nux 
' Vomica not powdred, only cut in bits, and the next 
day the Dog dies. If it were powdered the Dog would 
dye in half an hour. 
He fays l^ux Vomica is fo called by contraries, for it 
never Vomits but ftiuts up the Stomach, and contra&s 
the Nerves by its poyfon. 
To preferve the Dogs alive, you mufl: give them with 
the Antidote or any thing elfe,three or four grains of fub- 
limate, which immediately lets them a Vomiting, and 
fo faves them alive. 
He offers to take all (brts of Poyfons, even Corro- 
fives after an ordinary meal, and for a tryal of Skill he 
refufes them not on an empty Stomach. 
He much efteems Morfus Diaboli, Succifa or Devills- 
bit, againft all forts of Poyfons he laughs at the Poy- 
fonof a Toad, which he fays has none at all, no more 
then a Frog, and affirms he has eat feveral without any 
mifchief. 
His Sugar or Remedy for Worms in Children, is fif- 
teen grains of Mercurius dulcis with five grains of Sea m- 
mony, and two or three times as mucti Sugar, made 
up in Lozenges. 
He fays, That this Dofe which in Frame purges grown 
Perfons, does nothing in England on thofe above fifteen 
years old, and ought to be augmented. 
His Mercurius dulcis is made without Vitriol , which 
tho good is yet CorrofiVe, he takqs only allies with de- 
crepitated Salt. 
The manner of theaSing of the Vipers Poyfon is thus : 
In about | of an hour, a Syncope or Swooning feizes 
them with Tremblings and Convulfions, tingling of the 
Ears, and frequently Deafnefs for a moment ; next as it 
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