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The bread made of the Rcy which holds fomcof this cor- 
rupted corn, tafts neither worfe nor better than other. The Rcy 
thus corrupted hath its efFefts chiefly when 'tis n^w, yet not till 
it hath been ufed a confiderable tiaie, 
Thefe efFefts are,io dry up the milk in women;to caufe fome- 
times malign Fevers,accompanied with drowzinefs and raving; 
to breed the gangren in arms, but moft in legs, which ordinari- 
ly arc corrupted firft , and to which this diftemper faftens it 
felf,as the Scorbut doth. 
This corruption is preceded by a certain ftopefaftion in the 
legs; upon which followsa little pain,and Tome fwelling with- 
out inflammation,and the skin becomes cold and Ji vid. The gan- 
grene begins at the center of the pare, and appears not at the 
skin but a long while after, fo that people are often obliged to 
open the skin to find only the gangrene lurking under it. 
The only remedy for this gangren is to cut off the part afFe- 
ded. If it be not cut off, it becomes dry and lean,as if the skin 
were glued over the bones, and*tisof a dreadful blacknefs, 
without rottennefs. 
Whilft the legs are drying up,the gangren afcends to the fiioul- 
ders, and one knows not, which way it communicates it fclf. 
We have as yet not lighted upon a fpecifick remedy againft 
this cvil.There is fome hope of preventing it by hot Spirits and 
volatil Salts.ThcOrvhfa/t and ptifane of L»/>//«fx do confidera- 
ble good to the perfon diftempered. Poor people are almoft 
only fubjeft to ihefe evils. 
MrTMiU^er mites M'Dodard woYd^thatin the year 1673. he 
faw much of this cornuted grain among the Rey of the Country 
of G/iy?/>^)ftr,and that the Country- people told him, that there 
was much more of it this year , than the laft year , and that it 
caufed great dilbrdcrs : And yet 'tis certain, that this Summer 
hath rather been cold than hot, and that there hath not been 
any confiderably intemperate weather this year , but excefs of 
wet* M. Dodard avers, that he hath feen much of this black 
grafn among the Rey upon'fandy grounds , and the grains and 
ears he hath brought thence, appear'd to the faid Company al- 
together like thofe which MD«^^ fcot from MontAtgii. 
Mean t-ipne^ it ^ni^y be doubted whether thefe gangrens are 
th^ ^ffe^ Qf^l^^i^ipprji eate^ wjiether <he corruption of the 
Key , and that of' tlie pairts in the bodies of men are not acci- 
dents 
