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quids without abundance of Trouble. In fhort, it 
exa&Iy refembled the fore Throats I ufed to be 
afflicted with before my Knowledge of this Medicine ; 
and therefore I gave it up to take the fame Courfe it 
was accuftomed to do formerly. 
After about a Week, when I had good Reafon to 
• believe there was a confiderable Collection of Matter, 
and I expeded it every Hour to break, I was called by 
Bufinefs to a Relation’s Houfe at Tottenham , in Middle- 
fex ; where, being fcarce able to get down a fingle Difh 
of Tea, my Friends (who have been long acquainted 
with the Virtues of Black Currant yellf) inquired 
wherefore I had not applied to my ufual Remedy : I 
told them, that I had, but to no purpofe at all } which 
I knew not how to account for, unlefs, mine being 
above Two Years old, Time had deftroyed its Virtue. 
They faid, they had lately made fome ; and immedi- 
ately fetched a Glafs of it, which they perfuaded me 
to make ufe of. — I took Three or Four Spoonfuls of 
it, rather through Civility, than from any Hope of 
its doing Good, at a time when I every Moment 
expected and wifhed it to break. 
In about an Hour’s time, as I fat by the Fire-lide, 
I perceived a fort of difagreeable putrid Smell, which 
I did not mind at firft, fuppofing it fomething acci- 
dental : But, finding a Continuance or rather an In- 
creafe of it, I began to examine what it might be 
owing to 5 and was convinced, after I had changed 
my Place, that it proceeded from myfelf, and was 
really the Smell of my own Perfpiration, which I 
found fo much increafed, as to become almoft a 
Sweat. At the fame time, fancying my Throat a 
little eafier, I took fome more of the Jelly. 
