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and ufefuh I have not been very felicitous about 
Words* all that I aimed being only to make my Mean- 
Ing known: The Nature of the Subject would nor* 
indeed* well admit of the Decorations of Art and 
Style* had I been capable of giving them to it* Or- 
nari res ipfa negat , content a docerL 
Friend of mine lately informed me, that there 
was a wonderful Cure performed upon a Wo- 
man in this County* feveral Years ago, who had been 
bitten by a Mad-Dog, and in whom the evident 
Symptoms of the Hydrophobia appeared, who yet 
was faved* by God’s Bleffing, upon the Ufe of a 
Powder given by the Dire&ion of the Lady Brook 
(a Perfon of Eminence formerly in Suffolk). It feems 
the Powder went by the Name of The Lady BrookV 
■ Bomder , and was generally fuppofed to be chieffy, if 
not only, the Corompus dried and pulverized : And 
I muft own, that I have at prefent fuch an Opinion 
of the great Virtue of this Simple, that till I have 
fome convincing Evidence of its having failed* I can 
fcarce avoid looking upon it as a Specific contra 
morfum canis rabidi 5 and I heartily wifh, for the 
fake of fuch as fhali at any time happen to fall under 
fo terrible a Misfortune* that it may be proved by 
I am, 
SIR * 
With great RefpeSly 
Tour very humble Servant , 
Tho. Steward. 
T. S. 
Experience fo to be. 
