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the fecond Year. So that it is much the better Way to 
have freth Roots every Year. 
I am with the greateft Refped, 
GENTLEMEN, 
Chelfea, Feb, 
Vh> 17 St* 
Tour mojl Obedient Affociate, 
Philip Miller, 
VII. A Letter from T. Madden, M. D. of 
Dublin, to Cromwell Mortimer, M. D. 
(2^. 5. Seer, giving an Account of two Women 
being poifonedly the S imple Distilled 
Water of Laurel-Leaves, and of 
feVeral Experiments upon Dogs $ by which it ap- 
pears that this La ur el- Water is one of 
the ?noft Dangerous Poisons hitherto 
known. 
SIR, 
A Very extraordinary Accident that fell out here 
fome Months ago, has difeovered to us a moft 
dangerous Poifon, which was never before known to 
be fo, though it has been in frequent Ufe among us. 
The Thing I mean is a Simple Water, diftilled from 
the Leaves of the Lauro-cerafus . The Water is at 
