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ally ceafed, and the Patient recover'd perfeftly in a 
Day or two. He took nothing inwardly befides a 
limple Mixture * with an anodyne mineral Liquor, 
by the Advice of my Coufin, whereupon a copious 
Sweat enfued, which fenfibly relieved the Patient. 
We do not difown but that this Medicine contributed 
greatly to the Cure, although the chief Part in this 
Affair is to be abferibed to the Oil of Olives , becaufe 
upon anointing therewith, the Symptoms abated in- 
ftantly. I had this whole Cafe from the Mouth of 
the Man himfelf, who was bitten, and thus cured. 
I fhall pafs over what our Author faith concerning 
the Nature and different Species of Vipers ; concern- 
ing the Effects of the Bite of Vipers on Men and 
Brutes; his Examination of the Venom of Vipers ; 
the ‘Phenomena obferved upon opening Brutes killed 
by the Bite of Vipers ; the Cure of thefe Bites by the 
Application of external Remedies, and by giving An- 
tidotes internally; the two famous Antidotes, the 
Mungos-root , and the Serpentine forte , called the 
Magnet of Poifons ; as being only Collections from 
Authors, and containing nothing new. But fpeaking 
of the Serpentine or Viperftone, he relates a very 
extraordinary Accident, if true, from Kampfers 
Amanit. p. 579. The Cafe was this: In theHoufe of 
a 'Dutch Governor on the Coaft of Choromandel , a 
Servant Maid happen'd to be bit in the Foot by a 
CobraCabelo. The Serpentine -ft one was immediately 
laid on, which falling off, and no other being to 
be had, nor any new Milk being at hand to wafh out 
the Pores of the Stone in, a wet Nurfe being in the 
Houfe, 
# Sj>< Vitriol dulcir Sj>. Vitriol p. i. Sj>. V, p, iij> 
