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wild FriBhns , as unskilfully as they order them, do ftrange 
things, both in preferring health, and curing difeafes i curing 
Cold and Chronical ones by FriMim , as they do Acute ones, by 
%JnUian. 
Thirdly fV^XQ learned Dr. JolmBeale , did not long fince com- 
municate by fome Letters ; Firfl , that he could make good 
proof of_the curing or killing a very great and dangerous 
Wen (that had been very troublefome for two or three 
years, ) by the application of a dead mans hand, whence 
-the Patient -felt fuch a cold ftrearn pafs to the Heart, that it 
did alrnoft caufe in him a fit of fwouning Secondly, that, upon 
■his brothers knowledge, a certain Cook in a Noble Family 
of England (wherein that brother of his then lived) having 
been reproached for the uglinefs of his Watty hands, and 
return’d for anfwer, that he had tried many remedies, but 
found none , was bid by his Lord, to rub his hand with 
that of a dead man * and that this Lord dying foon after, 
the Cook made ufe both of his Lords advife and hand, and 
fpeedilyfound good effect (Which is alfo confirm’d by what 
Mr. Boyle relates in his lately mentioned Boop^ oi'Dv.Mar^ 
veys frequently fuceesfull triall , of curing fome Tumors 
or Excrefcencies, by holding on them fuch a Hand.) Here 
is FriUion or Touch yo mortifie Wens, to drive away fwellings 
and Excrefcencies : And why not to repel! or diffipate Spi- 
rits, that may have a dangerous influence upon the Brain* 
or other parts; as wellas to call forth the retired ones into 
the habit of the Body, for Iiivigoration ? Thirdly , that a 
Gentleman, who came lately out of Ft eland, lay at his Houfe, 
and inform'd him of an aged Knight there, who having 
great pain in his feer, infomuch that he was unable to ufe 
them, buffered, as he was goingto bed, a loving Sfanu% to 
lick his feet; which was for the prefect very pleafingto him, 
fo that he ufed it mornings and evenings, till he found the 
pain appeafed. and the ufe of his feet reftored. This, faith 
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