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v ftfcn, and higher Exaltation, by palling thro' fevcral Strai- 
ners and Glands before it arrives to the Gums; as an inftance 
*• of the virulence of this Liquor, he tells us, that a Traveller 
; killing one of thefe Snakes, fuffered the inraged dying Viper, 
to bite the end of his Switch, with the lalhesof which he had 
di fabled him; and a Fly by chance diffurbing one of his Tem- 
ples as he rod on afterwards, he rob’d his Temple with the 
other end of the Switch, which as he relates it, immediately 
cauled his whole Head to (well to a great excefs, the Poifon 
as he fuppofes permeating the whole length of the Switch. He 
adds another relation as to the penetrating quality of this Poi- 
fon, a Perfon provoking a Ratt/e-Snake to bite the Edge of a 
broad Axe he had in his Hand; the colour, of the Steeled 
part bitten, was immediately changed, and at the firft 
ftroke he made with it in ufing his Ax, the fo difcolou- 
red part broke out, leaving a gap in his Ax. But to 
return to the Trochies made of the Gall, he fays it is a 
Cordial fudorifick, and fo good an Anodine, that he knows 
Pome who take 3 or 4 Grains of it to compofe them to reft 
after Travel. ’Tis good in all Fevers, efpecially the Mal’g* 
nant. ’Tis an infallible Remedy for Obftrutftions incident to 
Women upo,n catching cold in Childbed. Being taken in a 
convenient Quantity, iz Hours^before the Fit, it certainly 
cures a Quartan Ague. The Dofe is 14 Grains more or JePs 
, according to the Circumftances of the Patient in any Vehicle. 
The next Letter treats of the Effects of Thunder and Light- 
ning very frequent with them, which from its frequent deftroy- 
ing Animals, without any vifible Hurt on the external Parts, 
he compares to the Jewifh Punifhment of pouring melted 
Lead down the Throats of the Condemn’d which they call’d 
combtiftio anima. Tho 1 he like wife obferves fome have had 
their Hair Pinged with Marks on their Skin like thoPe made 
by Pmall Shot ; Pome have had their Bones made limber like 
a Griftle. The Captain of their Caftle was found Dead in 
his Bed after a ftorm of Lightning without any apparent Hurt. 
Here he relates a Paflage of which an Account has fometime 
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