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having caufed it to be given to .a whole Kennel of 
Dogs bitten by a Mad one, which were all cured, 
except one of them, to whom rone of it was given. 
The .Specimen was kept in the Repofitory.] 
fllprere, Whether it be there ftill ? 
[Afterwards, viz. March 1671-2. Sir R. M. men- 
tioned, That a whole Kennel of Dogs belonging to 
his Royal Highnefs, were bitten by a Mad-Dog, and 
had been lately cured by an Herb called Stellaria, or 
Star of the Earth . This Plant is the Lych. vifc . 
fore muflcofo, C. B . in Englifh, Spanish Catch-fly : See 
thefe Ttanfattions, N* 187. where is a Receipt to 
cure Mad Dogs, wherein this Plant is a principal In- 
gredient, which Receipt, communicated by Sir R. 
Gourdon, was there publifhed by his Majefty's fpecial 
Command, An. 1687.3 
Now, Sir, here are two very different Accounts 
from the fame Perfon, relating to the fame Thing. 
In the firft, Sir i?. M. fpeaks of the Cure as per- 
formed by the Lichen > in the fecond, in lefs than 
half a Year after the other, he mentions it as done by 
the Stellaria - Now it feems utterly improbable, that 
the Kennel of Hounds fhould be twice bitten, and 
cured by a different Plant in fo fhort a Space : And 
indeed (as I hinted before) my prefent Opinion is, 
that the Hounds were never bit by a Mad-Dog at all, 
but that the whole Story has been founded upon an 
older one, of which there is Mention made in that 
Book written by T* de Grey, Efqj called The expert 
Farrier, in the 2d Edition of which, in 4 t0 , publifhed in 
1652. among other Cures for the Bite of a Mad-Dog, 
he prefcribes this which follows,/- 
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