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he was confin’d, The Father begg’d me to give him 
the Recipe, and a flared me he would make ufe of ir, 
as the Methods formerly tried had proved unfuc- 
cefsful. He foon returned me a Letter of Thanks, 
acquainting me, That the Medicine had made his Son 
fleep found for 23 Hours, that he had perfpired plenti- 
fully, and waked in his Senfes. I have flnee heard, 
that he continues well, and, from a Skeleton, is 
grown fat. 
Case IX. 
A particular Friend of mine went mad about a 
Year and half ago, by too intenfe Thinking. I men- 
tion’d the preceding Cafe to Dr. Armftrong and Mr. 
Fergufon , who attended him ; and, with their Appro- 
bation, gave him Musk, native and factitious Cinna- 
bar, of each a Scruple, in about a Gill of Arrack. 
In about three Hours, he fell, or feem’d to fall, aflecp ; 
upon which, fuppoftng the Medicine had taken Ef- 
fect, we left him: But, foon after we were gone, he 
waked 5 and, next Day, feeming very little, if at all, 
better, was removed to a private Mad-houfe. There 
nothing elfc was done to him ; but at Night he flept 
tolerably well, appeared much better next Day, and 
continued mending, till he was in a little time quite 
well, as he is now. How much of this Cure may 
be attributed to the Medicine I do not know, as it 
did not operate immediately, nor in the ufual Man- 
ner. I mention it chiefly to fhew, that even twenty 
Grains of Musk had no bad ElfeCt upon him, if they 
had not a good one. 
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