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“ Root was immediately Tent for, and the Decoftion 
“ made, and given him in great Quantity. He con- 
<c tinued taking it for three or four Days, and oil 
“ the Fifth went to work along with the reft of the 
ft Negroes.” 
That the Senfible Riant is endow’d with the Pro- 
perty of refilling Poifon, hath been, before this, 
taken Notice of. For the Honourable Sir Hans 
Sloane , the late worthy Prefident of this Society, 
whofe Writings will always remain an Honour to his 
Country, hath obferv’d from Rifo, that the Root of 
this Shrub is an Antidote againft the Shrub itfelf, 
which is very poifonous, and kills by Degrees, making 
the unhappy Sufferers Cache&ical, Short-winded, and 
Melancholy, till they die *. This greatly corro- 
borates what our Author has advanced 5 and it is 
obferveable, that he likewife dire&s all Parts of the 
Plant, except that Part of the Root which is in the 
Ground, to be rejected, as bad and noxious : Though 
whether this be exa&ly the fame Plant with what 
our Author mentions, I dare not determine j as Sir 
Hans Sloane inquires whether it be not the ^ y£f- 
chynomene , feu Mimofa arbor efeens Americana , &c. 
fore alb o\ whereas Dr. Burge fs exprefly fays, that it 
fowers yellow : though this may, poffibly, be a Mif- 
takc in him. 
I am fenfblc it may be obje&ed, that the Negro 
Poifon is of various Kinds ; and that therefore, though 
this Remedy may be fo extraordinary a Specific in 
fome Cafes, it may be unavailable in others. That 
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