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tho* he never could be induced to take any kind of Meat 
or Drink ; and thus he continued in pretty good Health, 
and frelh coloured, till the 9th day of June, 1719 when 
he was feized again with a fevere Fever; anci upon the 
10th, at Night, his Father prefixed him extreamly to 
take a little Milk boiled with Oat-meal, which at. 
length he agreed to ; and he took a Spoonful of it, 
which duck fo long in his Throat, that his Parents, 
thought he had been choaked ; and ever fince he has 
taken a little Food, but fo very little, that a Halfpenny 
Loaf ferves him eight Days. That all the time he fa- 
ded, he never had any Evacuation either by Stool or 
Urine; and it was fourteen or fifteen days after he be- 
gan to eat, that he got any benefit that way ; and that 
he is now in pretty good Health, but (Fill wants the 
ufe of one of his Limbs. And this is the Truth, as we 
(hall anfwer to God. 
James Jackson , 
Elizabeth Bell, 
Charles Browne, Baily. 
Gilbert Anthone , Clerks 
IX* A T>lfcourfe concerning a Method of JifcoVering 
the Virtues of Plants by their external StruHure . 
©y the fame . 
H Aving hitherto delivered my Thoughts concern- 
ing the drudure of the Flowers, Frudification, 
various Methods, Generation and Nourifhment of Plants, 
I now come to add fomewhat concerning their Virtues*. 
I cannot enough admire the Judicioufnefs and Sagacity 
of- 
