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come foft, clean, and well conditioned, and, as he 
has repeatedly allured me, he got then into a much 
better conditioned date, then he had experienced for 
many years before. 
From firft to lad, this juice never purged him ; 
though he fays, even in its reduced dofe, it never failed 
to occafion a dizzinefs of the head, a naufea, and 
ficknefs, which were not infrequently fucceeded by 
a vomiting, that always indantly relieved his head. 
From the middle of April to the middle of June, 
he defided from the ufe of the juice, but, in its dead, 
drank every morning for breakfad, the infufion of 
the leaves of the fame plant, which, he fays, is 
like common bohea tea. The infufion feldom oc- 
cafioned naufea, or ficknefs, but always brought on a 
fmall degree of vertigo, and in a fight manner pro- 
duced the effedls of intoxication from liquor. 
In June he went to Haxrowgate, as he had de- 
figued in the fummer before. Upon fird drinking 
and bathing there, he thought himfelf worfe; and 
his eruptions, having gradually increafed during the 
two months that he daid in that place, he was 
convinced that thofe waters were of no real fervice to 
him. On his coming home, he returned to the ufe 
of the infufion, and he affures me, that he again 
found, even by that weak preparation, a very fpeedy 
alteration for the better. From that time, he con- 
tinued it ever fince, until his dock of the herb was 
exhauded ; his fkin is now fo very little aftedted, that 
he has but here and there, upon his arms and legs, a 
very fmall appearance of his diforder. 
Upon quedioning him relating to the fenfible 
qualities of this medicine, he lays again, that he 
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