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In the Summer, 1689. hoping to compleat the Cure, 
I procured (by means of a Contribution made 00 pur- 
pofej for her, a large Stock of Medicines for the Winter 
following : but fmce that Summer hare heard nothing 
more of her. 
There were feveral Opinions concerning this young 
Woman fome (you will eafily imagin) thought her Be- 
witch'd ; others, that flie counterieited ; But the Fa- 
vourers of one and the other of thefe Opinions, were 
equally Strangers to her Cafe, 
Can it be fuppofed that a Girl of very ordinary Un- 
derftanding (as indeed this was) and a Ruftick Educa- 
tion, ihould leave a Courfc of Living tolerably well, and 
(to the great Prejudice of her Health, and Danger of her 
Life) carry on, for the Space of Two Years, a Humour 
which depriv'd her of fo much Converfation, and 
brought both her, and her Mother, to fuch exceffiv^ 
Hard (hips and Neceffities, extraordinary? Choofcjatthe 
fame time to take vaft Quantities of Phyfick (for fuch 
Ihe was feen to take) gain Ground under the Ufe of 
that Phyfick and in Proportion to it, loft that Ground 
again, upon omitting ; regain it upon refumiog her 
Pnyfick,* and this evidently, manifeftly, and frequeodyj 
and yet all this while Diffemble ? Sir, I beg leave to fay, 
I think it was not in her Power fo to do. 
Indeed Credulity argues Weaknefs of Mind and is^ 
defervedly attended wich Reproach. It is offenfive ta 
Philofophy ; whofe venerable Records it interlines with 
falfe Stories, and idle Tales. But on the other Hand^ 
^tis alfo true, that Scepticifm is not lefs a Fault for that 
alone renders the whole Book of Nature infignificant- 
What can the cieareft Experiment, or the beft difcovery 
import to liim, who will not hear, who will not fee ? 
Exon^ Jftne 1698. 
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