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the Kitchin, would, as often as (he was bid to bring her Salt, 
or could elfe come at it, fill her Pockets therewith, and eat 
It? as other children doe Sugar : whence file was fo dried up, 
and grown fo ftiff, that fhe could not itirre her limbs, and 
was thereby ftarved to death. 
That Learned and Obferving Do$©r John Beal % upois the 
perufal of the foremenfcioned Numb y 6. was plea fed to com® 
municate this Note 
To your Obfervation,of Milk in Veines, I can add a ?h£~ 
nomwon of fume refemblance to it , which I received above 
20 s years agoe from Thomas Day , an Apothecary in Cam* 
hridg y md. That hitnfelf let a man blond in the arme , by 
order of Dodor Eade> a Phyfitian there. The mans bloud 
was White as MPk, as it run out of his arme, it had alittledi- 
lute rednefsybut immediately? as it fell into the Veffei, it was 
prefently white ; and it continued like drops of Milk on the 
pavement? where ever it fell® The eonje&ure which the 
laid Phyfitian had of the caufe of this appearance, was, that 
the Patient had much fed on Fife ,* aflrming with all, that he 
had foots been a Leper, if not prevented by Phyfick* 
Away of preferring Ice and Snobby Chaff e* 
Thd Ingenious Mr. William Ball did communicate the re- 
lation hereof, as he had received it from his Brother, now re- 
tiding at Livorno , as follows 5 
The Snow, or Ice-houfes are here commonly built on the 
fide of a fteep hill, being only a deep hole in the ground, by 
which meanes, theyeafily make a paffageout from the bot- 
tom of it, to carry away all the water, which, if itfeould re- 
main ftagnating therein, would melt the Ice and Snow : but 
they thatch it wich ftraw, in the fhape of a Saucepan-cover , 
that the rain may not come at it.The fides (fuppofing it dry) 
they line not with any thing- as is done in St Jeamess Park, 
by reafbnofthc moiflnefs of the ground. This Pit they fill 
¥ ' full 
