them in Water, and rubbing in a certain Oyl which they 
call Sinfelen, and fo drink or eat it up y half an hour af- 
ter which they perceive a kind of Convulfion in their 
Head, and vomit or retch four or five times : Laftly, they 
lofs their Sences, and foaming at the Mouth, they fret 
and fpeak like Fools or Mad men till they dye : So that 
it ieems that the Poyfon thickens the Humours or fluid 
parts of the Body, till the circulation of them quite 
ceafes. Some end their lives in one, others in two or 
three days, . according as they have taken more or lefs of 
thofe Leafs* So far proceeded the Defcription that the 
Eaji India Surgeon gave of it- — -—The abovetnention’d 
Seed is moftly of a Triangular figure, and not above the 
breadth of h of an inch where it is largeft y I took a lit- 
tle of it and put into a clean Paper and bruifed it with a 
Hammer, and after that into a little Glafs Viol, and 
poured fome fair Rain Water upon it, till the Water 
flood half an inch above the Seed -After the Seed 
had been infufed in the faid Water fome hours, I took a 
little of the Water and mixed it with my blood, as it 
dropc from my Finger by the pricking of a Needle, and I 
immediately obferved that the Blood was excreamly Co- 
agulated, yea, more than I had ever feen it in my Life — — 
But as Bloou, when ’tis mixed with common Water, 
keeps its clear Red Colour, and a-greai many Globules, 
which are the caufe of its rednefs, being difiblved in the 
Water, do fo incorporate themfel ves therewith that you 
can diflinguilh none of them from the Water itfeli, which 
thereby acquires a fine Crimfon Colour y the appearance 
was quite otherwife with the Blood that was mixed with 
the Seed Water, for the Particles or Globules thereof be- 
ing Coagulated, did affume a Blackilh or Dir y Colour: 
and t ho I obferved a very great number of Blood Glo- 
bules that were not Coagulated, all lay like ftjff 
Particles y neither could l perceive teat one o i them were 
diffolved, or united to die Water y. fo that not the lead: 
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