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Butter . \t inftantly made him foam from the Mouth, 
and caus d Hidden Vomiting, and, in half an Hour, 
Weaknefs of his Limbs, and Staggering, which 
lafted half an Hour, and then he recoyer’d. 
' I tried to give a larger Quantity to another Dog ; 
but it being too much like other irritating Medi- 
cines, caufed fo great a Vomiting, as deftroy’d the 
Effeds which a fmaller Quantity had before pro- 
duc’d. 
One of the Dogs had fome loofe Stools after 
taking it 3 another urin’d plentifully. 
Like Experiments have been made by Mr TPearce 
at St. Thomas's Hofpital, which had nearly the fame 
Event. 
Though none of the Dogs were killed by this 
Drug, but remain to Appearance well, yet all Apo- 
thecaries have fufficient Reafon to examine very 
ftridly their Gentian, and to rejed what they find 
not genuine, fince one of the Women before-men- 
tion’d, and a Man that I have heard, of are both 
dead; and fince Gentian is of general Ufe in medi- 
cal Compofitions, as well as the primary Ingredient 
in the cordial Bitters Ladies make for their own 
Ufe. 
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