purging ftoutly, faid, There, Miftrefi, is Gold for you. 
A Child in the Cradle having alfo tafted of the Pye, was 
much dofed, and turned its Mouth to and again, and 
thus they continued for fontie Days, and then became 
well. All which was confirn^ed to me by the Man and 
and Wife of the (aid Houfe, where we then went to re- 
frelh our (elves (they then keeping a Publick Houfe j. 
Here it may be queried, whether the Yellow Colour 
the Flowers running in their Minds (which the eating of 
the Roots had now depraved) might not beget that Idea 
in them, to fancy moft things to be Gold, they alfo be- 
ing Yellow. 
VL Part of a Letter from Sir Robert Sibbald, 
to Dr. Sloane, concerning ft^veral Stones 'void- 
ed by a Boy. J &c. 
THis fame Month of Ji4fte^ a rare Cafe occur'd to 
me in the Perfon of a Boy, going in the Thir- 
teenth Year of his Age, Son to a Friend,- this Boy had 
the Misfortune Four Weeks ago to fall backwards upon 
a Stone, againft which the hinder Part of his Head was 
ftruck v.'ith fuch Force, that (as they who were thereby 
informed me) he lay the Fourth part of an Hour without 
Senfe, and the next Day vomited fome Blood, he felt 
a Pain and Weight in the hinder part of his Head and 
Neck, and loft Appetite. He concealed his Cafe, and 
fo nothing was done for m.ore than a Fortnight. After 
;£he Fall he went into the Country, and flayed a few 
Days, 
