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gather in the Maw. The beft Remedy is to turn 
him loofe for fome Hours every Day in a good Pa- 
fture, by which Means he will foon return to his 
thriving Condition, and fat apace. 
Under this Head are depofited the Bezoars j 
they are found in the Inteftines of an Indian Goat, 
and have been deemed of great Ufe in Medicine, 
but are not now fo much in Efleem; they are 
ranked among the Alexipharmics. The oriental 
Bezoar is molt valuable; and of them thofe are to 
be preferred that {trike a deep green upon a chalked 
Paper. It is Very dear, and fhould be a chief In¬ 
gredient in the Gafcoign’s Powder, to which it gives 
its Colour; but the exprefled Juice of Violets has 
been often ufed for that Purpofe, inflead of the Be¬ 
zoar. Nay, a certain Profeffor of Phyfic told me 
fome Years ago, that the Gafcoign's Powder has 
been imitated by only making Balls of Pipe- 
makers Clay mixed with Animal Gall -, and many 
were by this Means impofed on. When Medicines 
are fo dear, they are very liable to be counterfeited. 
The Stone found in the Chamoife, Porcupine 
and Monkey, are alfo fuppofed to have the fame 
Virtues, being deemed a Kind of Bezoar j and 
moreover, there is attributed to them a much 
greater medicinal Power by many credulous Peo¬ 
ple ; for they have been often worn as Charms, or 
Prefervatives againft Difeafes. 
The largeft Stone of this Kind the Author of 
, thefe Sheets ever faw, or indeed heard of, to 
have been taken out of the Body of any Animal, is 
now in the PolTeffion of a Miller who lives at a lit¬ 
tle Village near Bures in Suffolk it was found 
in the Body of a Mare which died foon after drop- 
ing a Foal. The Beall expired in fuch Agonies, 
that the Owner had the Curiofity to have her open- 
