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valuable a Recipe , I was, two or three Years after, 
favoured with it by the late Mr. Hart , 
They take of the beft Musk about lixteen drains; 
of the pure!!: native Cinnabar, and fineft Vermilion, 
each about twenty-four Grains ; and, having reduced 
them feparately to impalpable Powders, -mix and ad- 
minifter them in about a Gill of Arrack '; which, in 
two or three Hours, generally throws the Patient into 
a found Sleep, and Perfpiration s if not, they repeat 
the Dofe, and think the Cure certain. 
As 1 had no room to doubt the Fad, 1 began to 
Con fid er attentively the Symptoms of the Diftemper, 
and the Nature of the Remedy. The former feera’d 
to proceed immediately from the Irritations of the 
Nerves by the Acrimony of the Juices ; which, being 
eonftantly and violently hurried about, are, by that 
Motion, and the Heat attending it, broken, colli- 
tjuated, and gradually rendered rancid, putrid, corro- 
Eve, and even cauftic : In the mean time, the Nerves, 
"being more and more vellicated by the increafing 
Shar-pneCs of the Humours, become proportionably 
more rigid and conftrided j at once augmenting the 
V elocity of the Blood, and Burning up all the Pores 
and PaRages of -the -natural Excretions and Secretions; 
while what fhould, but cannot, pafs off by them, ex- 
afperares the Diforder, till the juices become (o cor- 
roiive and cauftic, as to produce mortal Convulsions.. 
Believing this Theory to be juft, fo far as it goes, 
T readily concluded, that a Medicine capable of relax- 
ing the nervous Syftem could not fail of relieving 
it from the above- mention'd Effe&s of Irritation, and 
'thereby putting a Stop to Convulfions, opening the 
wonftf ifte-d linages -oTFI attire, moderating die Vdo- 
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