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VIII. Part of a Letter from Mr. T. M. in Salop, 
to Mr. William Baxter, concerning the Jirange 
effeSls from the eating Dog-mercury with Re- 
marks thereon by Hans Sloan M. D. and S. R. S. 
T T 7. Matthews, his Wife and Three Children, 
V V h ave ^cn lately very ill ? and like to dye ; 
the occafion and manner of their Sicknefs was very odd, 
and therefore I fhall give you a particular account of 
both. About Three Weeks ago, the Woman went in- 
to the Fields and gathered fbme Herbs, and (having firft 
Boyled them) Fryed them with Bacon for her own and 
her Families Supper : After they had been about Two 
Howrs in Bed, one of the Children (which is Dumb and 
about Seven Years Old) fell very Sick, and Co did the 
other Two prefently after ; which obliged the Man and 
his Wife to Rife and take the Children to the Fire, where 
they Vomited and Purged, and within half an Hour 
fell faft afleep. - They took the Children to bed as they 
were afleep, and they themfelves went to bed too,, and 
fell fafter afleep too than ever they had done before. 
The Man waked the next Morning about Three Hours 
after his ufual Time^ went to his Labour at Mr. Newport 
and fo by theftrength of his conliitution carried it off,- 
but he fays, he thought his Chin had bin all the Day in 
a Fire, and was forced to keep his Hat full of Water by 
him all the Day long,and frequently dipt his Chin in it as 
he was at his Work. The Woman wakened a while af- 
ter her Husband, and being forced to it, got up to look 
after her little Family concerns,- but flie was very Sick 
and has continued fo till within thefe few Days/ince which 
fhe is very well recovered. One of their Children flept 
from that Night (which was Thurfday Three Weeks) 
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