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prevents al! Signs or Madnefs at all, which hath made 
fome indifcreec People fay it id no Good, they believe it 
would have done well enough without it : But our Unkle 
hath fully confuted that Miftake feveral times, by not 
Drenching a Dog offmali Worth fometimes, in a Gentle- 
man's Cry of Dogs, which hath died Mad, and not one 
of the reft Sick, but have followed their Matter's Game 
rather better than before. I am fure that I had died, if 
I had not taken Three of my Unkle's Dofes Three 
Mornings Fafting, in Warm Milk, by the Bite of a Grey- 
hound, for I efcaped narrowly, it being almoft too late : 
For I was Bit at Cearn^ and knew not that the Dog bad 
been Biuen by a Mad Dog, till after the Dog was Dead 
Mad, and a Meflenger came to acquaint me of it on pur- 
pofe, to Ceker ; therefore I can truly fay, Prohatum ed. 
And indeed, being ingenuoufly prepared and given, 'tis 
a moft Noble and Infallible Medicine. I have alfo fent 
you Two Dofes of our Unkle's own preparing, which by 
Chance I had by me, and am never without fome of ic 
wherever I ftay, by thofe Papers you may fee the Dofe 
that he commonly prepared, and may doe the like if you 
have occafion for it : During his Life, I was under sa 
Obligation to conceal the Receipt thereof to my felf, 
which, fince his Deceafe^ I am difingaged of, yet I fliali 
hardly communicate it to any but your (elf and ray own 
Children. I was with my Unkle when a Dog had got- 
ten in amongft a whole Heard of Cattel at Charmifier by 
Worcheftefy and had bitten fome, which growing Mad, 
and feeding together with their Fellows, when Mad, the 
Driveling of them infefted many more, and the Diftem- 
per continued almoft all the Summer amongft them, 
ftill One or Two Dying, a*nd Infeding more ; they dren» 
ched them for the Murrain, and went to Conjurers^ , 
and told them,they were Over-look'd by fome unlucky 
Perfon, that had been deny'd fomething defired, or o- 
therwife 
