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-was unable to fwallow any thing but warm Liquids, , 
and even thofe not without much Difficulty and 
Pain ; but upon its breaking I found immediate Eafe. 
This Diforder attacking me Five or Six times a 
Year, and fo me rimes oftener, afforded but too fre- 
quent Opportunities of experiencing, that all the 
common Methods did me no Good at all j but, on 
the contrary, made my Uneafinefs laft the longer, by 
retarding the Suppuration : Which often determined 
me to leave it wholly to Nature, with the Affiftance 
only of warm Broths and Gruels. 
But, about Twelve Years ago, I became acquainted 
with a learned and ingenious Clergyman, the Rev d 
Mr. IVafobonrne, Vicar of Edmonton , and one of the 
Canons of St. B aid’s > who told me, that from many 
Experiments on himfelf and others, fcarce ever failing 
of Succcfs, he could almoft affure me of a certain 
Cure, if, as foon as ever I ffiould perceive any Swel- 
ling or Sorenefs in the Throat begin, I would fwallow, 
leifurely, a fmall Quantity of the Juice of Black 
Currants * made into a Jelly j or, if the Jelly could 
* Ribes nigrum , Raii Hijl. Plant. Vol. II. p. i486. Squinancy 
Berries : Angina utiles \baccas~\ ejfe nomen Anglicum arguit. 
Dale in Pharmacol ogia fua in yto.p. 293. {ait) Ribes nigra in angina 
commendatur . 
John Aubrey , Efq; F. R. S. in his Mifcellanies, printed at London, 
1721. in 8vo. p. 63. fays, that a Gentlewoman had her fore Throat 
cured by a Pultefs of Blue Currants. 
The Efficacy of the Jelly of Black Currants , in curing fore Throats, 
has been long known among feveral good Women, who give away 
Medicines in the Country ; yet it has been hitherto fo overlooked by 
Phyficians, as not to be ordered to be kept in the Apothecaries Shops; 
and even the Rob or Jelly of Elder-berries , which comes up to this 
next in Virtue, although ordered, is kept but in few Shops. C. M. 
not 
