Crude Antimony does nothing if attacked by the 
Antidote. 
The moft mifchievous of all poyfons is Opium, of 
which having given an exceffive quantity to his Ser- 
vant, at firft he had Convulfions, then ftrange vomit- 
ings, not able to let any thing go down into his fto- 
mach, a fleepinefs follow*d, all which time they kept 
him awake as much as poffible, at laft all of a fudden 
he grew well, and called for Viftuals. 
Succifa or Devils Bit is excellent for Poyfons, efpeci- 
ally the Plague 5 and it is obfervable, that it is fo pow- 
erful a fudorific, that laying the fick perfon, v^hether 
of the Plague, or other malignant Fever, on a Bed of 
that Herb moderately hot, he (hall fweat till they take 
him oftV and much more it he drinks of the decoftion 
or juice of the Herb, which in Summer they take all, 
and in Winter of the Root only. 
He fays, that for the Dropfie, after all other things, 
one of the beft Remedies in the world is to take Mar^ 
fus Diaboli, and put it over the fire in a dry Kettle, 
that it may wet it only with its own juice ^ and of 
this to apply a quantity to the Belly and Reins of the 
Patient, covering him up warm, and fo provoke fweat, 
which will come away in great quantity, and may be 
maintained according to the ftrength of the Patient and 
exigency of the cafe. 
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