u perfed Cure. There is no Danger of giving too 
u much ; it can do no Harm at all. Several People 
u have taken this Decodion, though they have not 
“ been poifoned, thinking it would do them good 
f< in other Diftempers ; fo that one who any ways 
<£ fufpeds he has had fome of that Poifon given 
u him, may drink it very fafely, and in what Quan- 
“ tity he pleafes. The reft of the Plant is to be 
u rejeded as bad and noxious." 
The Dodor enforces his Obfcrvations by remark- 
ing, that he had been a Praditioner in thofe Parts 
for above Five-and-twenty Years. Many Negroes , 
he fays, were wonderfully preferved and cured by 
taking of this Antidote, though, for Brevity’s fake, 
he gives but one Inftance ; which is, “ of a ftrong 
“ Negro Man, about thirty Years of Age, and in 
tc perfed Health, who being one Night at a Planta- 
“ tion four Miles diftant from that where he lived, 
“ was invited to drink a Dram of Rum, by another 
“ Negro , who mixt Poifon with it. The Fellow 
<c drank it up, perceiving nothing to be in it; but 
“ as he was taking Leave, on the other’s bidding 
M him Farewel, and telling him he (hould never fee 
“ him again, he fufpeded he was poifon’d j and put- 
* l ting his Finger in his Mouth, vomited up great 
<( part of the Poifon, though there remain’d enough 
** of it to caufe continual Evacuations in him up- 
€C wards and downwards ; of Excrements firft, then 
“ of Humours, and Faftly of Blood. As he was 
“ coming home, he fainted away feveral times, and 
4t calling at length to fome Neighbour’s Negro 
“ Houfes, was brought home extremely alter’d j turn’d 
** white, and was, as it was thought, expiring. The 
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