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Igpecaja, or Pigdya, (ays he, is profitable for tbe 
Bloody Flux, the Stdk is a quarter long, and the R.oots 
of another, or more, it hat^i only four or five Leaves, ic 
(inelleth much wherefbever it is, but the fmell is ftrong 
and terrible, this Root beaten, and put in Water all Night 
at the Dew, and in the Morning, if this Water with 
the fame Root beaten and ftrained be drunk, only the 
Water, it caufeth prefently to Purge in fuch fort, that 
the Laske ceafeth altogether. 
Moft of this is Tranilated into Latin from Purchas, by 
JoJe Laet^Amer.Likif.Cap.io. p.s66. from the Hint of 
whom, I (uppokPifo and Marcgrave inquired more after 
it in Braji/e ; froai whole Inquiries,! conjecture^ we may 
have Co good an Account as they give us. 
Ilf. Acconnf of a Monfirous Calf with Two 
Heads.CommHnicated by the Right Honourable^ 
Sir Robert Southwell, K P. R. S. 
A Cow of Mr. Arthur Dais's ^ a fubftantial Free* 
holder of Wilnccot^ in the County of Warwick^ 
did on Mmday the i ith of January ^ 169I. bring forth a 
Monftrous Calf, having one perfed large Head, and on 
the Right Side of that, grew another almoft as large, and 
and of true Shape, having both Tongue and Teeth and 
from the Roof of the Mouth of the Monftrous Head, 
hung down a Piece of Flelh with the Shape of a Tongue 
upon it, and a Row of Teeth, as on an under Jaw, which 
occafioned the Man who Ihew'd it, to fay, it had Three 
Mouths. It had to each Head Two Eyes, only thofe of 
the Monftrous were very fmall, and I believe had no 
Sight. It had only Two Ears to both Heads, one of 
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