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being bit by an Adder , fhoold any longer be with= 
held from them j and they are defirous, that this their 
Remedy againfl: the Bite of the Viper may be 
as pubiickly known as the famous Dampier's 
Powder againfl: the Bite of a Mad Dog, firft 
publiftied by Sir Hans Sloane , Bart, when Seer. R . $. 
in Numb. 237. of thefe TranfaElions, Anno 1698. * 
which afterwards, when he was Prefident of the Royal 
College of Phyficians London , by his Propofal, 
was introduced into the London Tharmacopoeidy 
under the Name of Bulvis Ant ily flits , Anno 172a, 
The Compofition of which is, Ajh-coloufd Ground 
Liver-wort and blackBepper : The Manner of giving 
it, not only to Men, but to Dogs and Cattle, being 
accurately fet down in the above-mentioned Num- 
ber 237. of thefe TranfaElions, in a Letter from 
Mr. George D ampler, dated Exmouth , Nov . iQj 
1697 • to his Brother Capt. William c Dampier , the 
famous Sailor, I muft refer fuch as have*Occafion to 
give it, to that Paper. Thus I hope, that certain 
Cures are difeovered for the only two Sorts of ve- 
nomous Bites of Animals, to which the happy Soil 
of Great Britain expofes its Inhabitants. 
I fhall only beg Leave to add a Propofal of my 
own, which I made in my Thef Inaugur, de In - 
grejju Humorum in Corpus Humanum , Ludg. Bat . 
1724. That theUfe of the hot Bath, for Perfons bit 
* The Lichen cinereus terreftris is mentioned as being faid to be ex- 
ceedingly efficacious in curing Dogs bitten by Mad Dogs • in a Letter 
of Mr. Oldenburgtisy Seer. R. S. Lpnd. July 6 , 1672. See Verham's 
Colle&ion of Philofop . Letters between Mr. Ray and his Correjpon - 
dentSy p, no. printed at 'London, 1718. 8vo„ 
