II. A Letter from Edward Milward, M. fl. 
to Martin Folkcs, Efq$ ! Pvejident of the 
Royal Society, concerning an Antidote 
to the Indian Poifon in the Weft* Indies. 
SIR , 
Read Jan. 7. AS the Royal Society, over which 
1741-2. XjL you fo worthily prefide, was in- 
YUtuted for the Advancement and Propagation of 
Natural Knowledge, and as I am convinced, that every 
the leaf! Step towards fuch a Defign cannot but be 
agreeable 3 I fhall do myfelf the Pleafure of com- 
municating to you, an extraordinary fpecific Anti- 
dote againlt the Indian or Negro Poifon 5 which, I 
doubt not, will be the more acceptable, as this Poifon 
hath hitherto been efteem'd the moft deftrudive of 
any. 
The Knowledge of this Remedy was firft purchas'd 
from a famous Negro Poifoner, at a great Expence, 
by one who ftyles himfelf, Ifaiah Bargefs , i)oIior 
of Rhyfic 1 and the Secret devolv'd to myfelf, by 
means of a Manufcript of the Dodor’s, which, 
amongft others, I have procur’d, for my Hiftory of 
the Rhyfical and Chirnrgical Writers of this King- 
dom. The Author intended this little Trad, which 
contains Obfervations on the moft confiderable ^Dif- 
tempers in America, fhould be made public 5 he 
wrote it, at the Requeft of his Friends, about . . 
. . . v . . when an Expedition was defign'd 
into America 5 and particularly declares, that he pur- 
pos'd 
