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fpoonful every morning, faffing, mixed with two 
fpoonfuls of white mountain wine. 
Accordingly, about the middle of January 1771-, 
he procured a half-pint phial of what was fo called, 
by means of the perfon who had recommended it, 
and who had allured him that he had been greatly 
relieved, in a hmilar diforder, by it. 
The firft fpoonful he took did not begin to give 
any great uneafinefs for two hours, but after that 
time, his head began to be affe&ed in a very extra- 
ordinary manner ; a violent ficknefs foon fucceeded, 
and violent vomiting ; and, after he was put to bed, 
there came on cold fweats, and a very ftrong and 
long-continued rigor, fo that the people about him 
thought him dying for feme time j but, in a few 
hours, all thefe fymptoms wore off. 
Such, however, had been the inveteracy of his 
diforder, and fo flrong his delire to find relief, that 
he determined not to defift ; and, after having 
omitted his medicine for one day, he repeated it, in 
nearly the fame dole, and with fimilar effedls as 
to ficknefs and vomiting, though the uncommon fen- 
fation in his head, and the fucceeding rigor, were 
by no means fo violent. He had refolution enough 
to continue this dofe every other morning, for more 
than a fortnight, and then reduced it to three tea- 
fpoonfulls which was juft the half of the firft dofe. 
Before he had taken this juice one month, he 
was fenfible of a very great change for the better $ 
encouraged, therefore, by thefe appearances he per- 
fevered in its ufe until the middle of April, by 
which time his fkin, though not quite cleared, yet 
had ceafed to throw off any more feurf, was be- 
come 
