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portunity of trying the Efficacy of this Remedy, by 
an Accident happening in that City 5 which Cafe 
being remarkable, he hath related it at large in the 
above-mentioned Differ tation, and is as follows : 
The head Journeyman in the Royal Difpenfary at 
‘Drefden , being the laft Year preparing fome Italian 
Vipers for a Patient of Diftindion, was, through 
Negligence, bitten by one of them in one of his 
Eingers. The Man, finding himfelf wounded, was 
mightily frighted, and immediately fell to turning 
over Phyfic-books, in order to find out a Remedy, 
whereby he might ward off the Danger which he was 
fenfible hung over him. But he found little Com- 
fort in thofe Books 3 on the contrary, he was grieved 
in the higheft manner, upon reading in one of them, 
that Wounds from Vipers are commonly deadly, and 
that there remains very little Help to be given. Being 
in thefe Streights, he tried various things ; among 
others he applied Theriaca outwardly to the Wound, 
but felt no Relief from it; and in the Space of a few 
Hours, his whole Arm fwelling to an enormous 
Degree, he felt great Pain in it, with remarkable 
Tenfions under his Arm-pit towards his Heart, at- 
tended with a Faintnefs. Therefore, alnioft defpair- 
ing of Recovery, having tried all things in vain, he 
went to my above-mentioned Coufin Vater , and 
asked his Afiiftance. He having been informed of 
the Virtue of Qlive-oil in this Cafe, as I have , before 
mentioned, order'd the Man to anoint his whole Arm 
therewith hot, and feveral times, upon which the 
deured Effcd foon followed: For the Arm, after one 
or two Anointings, began to grow lefs 3 the Pains, 
with the ocher Symptoms, were affwaged, and gradu- 
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