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threw it at feveral times up that fame Noftril, it made 
his Nofe run and gleet, and his Eye-lids Ihiver and trem- 
ble a very little, and this was all the effedl 1 found, tho 
I pour'd up into ^one Noftril about a halt ounce Bottle of 
this fiery Spirit, which was as ftrong almoft as Fire itfelf. 
Finding no fuccefs with this neither, I cramra'd that 
Noftril with Powder of White Hellebore^ which I had by 
me, in order to make my farther trials, and I can hardly 
think any Impoftor cou'd ever be infenfible of what I did. 
I tarried Tome time afterwards in the Room to fee what 
efFefts all together might have upon him ^ but he never 
gave any token that he felt what I had done, nor difco- 
ver'd any manner of uneafinefs, by moving or ftirring 
any one part ot his Body, that I could obferve. Having 
made thefe my Experiments I left him, being pretty well 
fatisfied he was really alleep, and no fullen Counterfeit, as 
fome people thought him. 
Upon my return to Bath^ and relating what I had ob- 
ferv*d, and what proofs this Fellow had given me ot his 
Sleeping, a great many Gentlemen went out to fee him, 
as 1 had done, to fatisfie their Curiofity in a Rarity of that 
Nature, who found him in the fame condition I had left 
him in the day before 5 only his Nofe was inflamed and 
fwelled very much, and his Lips and the infide of his 
Right Noftril bliUer'd and fcabby, with my Spirit znA 
HeSehre, which I had plentifully dos'd him with the day 
before: His Mother upon this for fome time after wou'd 
fufFer no body to come near him, for fear of more Expe* 
riments upon her Son. . About ten days after I had been 
with him, Mr Woolmer^ an Experienc'd Apothecary at 
Bath, called at the Houfe, being near Tinshurj, went up 
into the Room, finding his Pulfe pretty high, as I had 
done, takes out his Launcet, lets him Blood about four- 
teen ounces in the Arm, tyes his Arm up again, no body- 
being in the Houfe, and leaves him as he found him 5 
