Alexipharmic Medicines befides, can be of no Ser- 
vice at all. And this may ferve as another Argu- 
ment, why, under any Probability of aPcrfon’s being 
injur’d by the Indian or Negro Poifon, this Remedy 
Ihould be adminiffer’d j even though we cannot pofi- 
tively be affur’d, whether it be by this very Poifon 
or not : For in Cafes where all other Remedies are 
likely, if not fure, to prove unavailable, we may as 
well advife this as any. 
I cannot affirm, I ever knew any Effedls from this 
Remedy on my own Knowledge or Obfervation ; 
having never refided in thofe Places where this 
Poifon is frequent : But furely a Medicine which 
promifes fuch great things for the Good of Man- 
kind, deferves to have a fair and candid Examina- 
tion ; and fhould it prove to be as ferviceable as the 
Author affures us it is, you cannot but receive the 
higheft Satisfadtion, in being inftrumental in divulg- 
ing the Knowledge of a Remedy, from whence the 
Public may receive fuch unfpeakable Benefit. And 
it would be doing the higheft Service to their Fellow- 
Creatures, if fuch as have a proper Opportunity in 
the fVeft-Indies , would adminifter it, according to 
the Diredlions here given, and report an exadt Ac- 
count of its Succefs. 
One thing more I muft beg leave to add, with 
regard to the Trial of this Medicine ; that it would 
be neceffary to obferve, whether the fame Root, 
dried, would be of equal, or any Efficacy : that if 
fo, the Benefits of it may be extended to other Cli- 
mates wherein this Herb does not naturally grow : 
Particularly as the Author is convinced, that the 
fame fort of Poifon is ufed both in Spain and Italy . 
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