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About eleven o’Clock he was feen alive and walk- 
ing about-, but next Morning he was found dead, af- 
ter having drank up all the Milk and Water, and hav- 
ing vomited and purged pretty much. 
Thus we find this Ample Water diftilled from a. 
Vegetable, equally mortal with the Bite of the Rattle- 
Snake, and more quick in its Operation than any Mi- 
neral Poifon ; and tho’ it may not immediately bring 
on Death, when taken in fmall Quantities, or mixed 
with other Liquors, it being common among our good 
Houfewives to put Laurel Leaves into Cream to give 
it the Rattafia or Apricock-Kernel Flavour ; and 
fome Compounders of Cordial Waters, to ufe the 
Berries of this Plant in Brandy inftead of Black Cher- 
ries, to mix fome of the diftilled poifonous Wlter 
with Brandy to make Rattafia, or to dilute it with 
common Water, till it refembles Black-Cherry Water 
in Tafte ; tho one fingle Draught at a time may not 
prove immediately mortal, yet an habitual Ufe of 
thefe Liquors muft certainly be exceeding prejudicial 
and unwholefome, and in weakly Perfons muft haften 
Death. 
I am informed that a Gentleman and his Wife, who 
fifed for feveral Years to drink daily a Dram or two 
of the Brandy in which Laurel Berries were infus'd, 
both died paralytic, having loft their Speech fome 
time before. 
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