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XXXIV. A Letter from Richard Pulteney, 
M. D. F. R. S. to William Watfon, 
M. D. F. R. S. concerning the medicinal 
FffeSls of a poifonous Plant exhibited injlead 
of the JV ater Parfnep. 
Dear Sir, 
Read July 9, ^ O M E clrcumftances having lately 
come to my knowledge, relating to 
the effedts of a poifonous plant, I thought them 
rather too remarkable not to merit further notice ; 
and, I addrefs them to you with the more propriety, 
as you have already laid before the publick fome ob- 
fervations * concerning the deleterious qualities of 
the plant in queftion, which holds a diftinguilhed 
place among the poifonous ones that are indigenous 
in Britain. 
Mr. H n, an attorney of this place, now up- 
wards of forty, at the age of fifteen, began to be 
affedted (after taking cold upon violent exercile, as 
he thinks) with what is ufually called a fcorbutick 
diforder j which fhewed itfelf more particularly on 
the outfides of his arms, about the elbows, and on 
* See Philofophical Tranfadiions, Vol. XLIV. p. 227. and 
Vol. L. p. 856. 
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