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1 6 8 Concerning the Cure THE Powder of Toads was likewife Prodigioufly extolled by every Body 5 but I found more Succefs in Spirits of Hartjhorn, given from 3 ij. to 5 i. in Plague-water. A Youth was feized with a great Diffi- culty of Breathing, the Arteries hardly beat, and, in fhort, all Things feem'd to beipeak him in his laft Moments 5 I pre- icribed him 3 1. of the forementioned Spi- rits in 3 iij. of compound Scordium Water ^ but the Symptoms continuing obfrinate, I again repeated the fame in three Hours Time, with Addition of 9 i. more j and five Biiiters were alfo forthwith applied, after which, in about half an Hour, he began to move his Limbs, and recollect himfelf, as if rilen from the Dead : But at laft, when all Things were hopeful, there appeated a Dilcolouration upon one of his Legs, where a Bliiier had been railed, with a Lofs of Senfe very near to a Sphacelation ^ upon this the affected Part was deeply fcari r fied, and then fomented, which, with a Repetition of the fame Draught twice in a Day, by the Bleiling of Heaven, again reitored every Thing into a hopeful Way. For this Spirit is of fuch a fiery Nature, that