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Thefe two laft Depofitions were, as the others, 
taken upon the Spot; and I began to confiaer them 
as important, when I learned, from the Confeflion 
of the laft, that he had taken, for fome Days, a De- 
co&ion of wild Succory, for an Indifpofition which 
he. had not fpoke of till then. The young Man who 
laid he had had two Stools, rendered his Teftimony 
more than fufpicious, by certain Singularities* which 
he was delirous of adding fome Hours after; and 
lincc that time he has conducted himfelf in fuch a 
manner, as to prevent my having, any Confidence 
upon what he faid. 
_ What 1 have juft now mentioned to have found 
in thefe two Servants, one of which kept me igno- 
rant fome time of his having taken Broth with Suc- 
cory ; and the other having tcfiified fuch a Love for 
the Marvellous, that one ought in Prudence to fuf- 
pc<ft every thing he faid ; This, I fay, made me very 
delicate in the Choice of the Perfons who 1 was de- 
firous fhould be admitted to our Experiments. I de- 
clared that I was not willing to receive thereto either 
Children, Servants, or People of the lower Clafs ; 
but only that reafonable People fhould be admitted, 
and of an Age fufficient to leave nothing to be feared 
of the Truth of what they might depofe. 
The 
*This young Man made himfelf very happy in relating ro every 
body, that he had been ele&ri'z.ed ; and that he had been purged 
thereby, as though he had taken Phyfic : And added, that, an Hour 
after his Eledtriiation, having had the CurioEty of vifiting his Wife, 
to fee what would be the Confequence, he had communicated this 
le&ricity to her, and chat fhe had been purged as well as himfelf. 
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