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dead, and opend^ the mother having, about the middle 
time of lier child-bearing, Teen men fight, and one of them 
wounded in his head, the blood trickling down on every 
fide, at which (he fcratched her head : Of one, that having 
fiieefed, at three feveral nights, above 300 times each night 
without intermilTion, was freed for a while from that fneefing 
by a Palfie of her left fide ; yet as foon as her head was 
heated by Motion or the Sun, or afFefted by a cold air and 
wind, fell a fneefing again; which was cured by applying 
fome leaven and amber to the cro-vn of her head; on which 
there was at length found a foft tumor , got by a grievous 
fall and knock, the matter of which being heated, did by 
dilatation, or, being cooled, did by conftriftion, and both 
wayes by its acrimony , vellicate the parts, to caufe the 
fymp:om : Of divers difeafes removed by a change into 
other difiempers ; as Convulfions into a Fever, a Fever in- 
to the yellow Jaundice, Frenfie into a Dyfentery , Head- 
ache into an Hasmorrhagy of thenofe; Deafifliriefs, Spitting 
of blood and Sorenefs of eyes into a Loofenefs, &c: Of 
a child, that had by mifchance fwallow'd a piece of lead, 
fuch as is commonly faftned for a mark to cloath , which 
child was faved by giving it fome vinegar , which open'd 
the body of the Lead : Of one that cured himfelf of the 
Bunmim diftemper by drinking large draughts of Rhinilli 
wine, and thereby provoking copious fweats : Of feveral 
perfons of fuch a temper, that they were purged , fome of 
them, by the meer fmell of a purgative , one, by the bare 
hearing, another by only dreaming, of the medi- 
* oi-y: 174. 234. c^^^ ^ • 'i^^^ ^^ Livonia the people are very 
feldom afflifled by the Stone ; which is afcribed 
to their way of brewing their beer all over the Country with 
red-hot flints : TA^^ Fontanels or IflTues are very powerful 
to remove Head-aches, ftubbom Defluxions, Podagrical hu- 
mors Sciatica's; asaifo to prevent Apoplexies, Epilepfies, 
Palfies,^ &c : T)&^^ 'tis a vulgar error, that Hares do change 
their Sex; 0/ an odd effedt of Lightning , which ftriking 
into the Turret of a Caft:le, did no mifchief, but only made a 
fmallhole inafilvercoin, kept in thepurfeof the watchmans 
wife: 
