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places rung at that time. I told him my opinion was fixed about those cures some years before they were performed: For that one Coker, (for that was the name of the person whose remarkable way of curing or healing I now mention,) by a very gentle chafing or rubbing of his hand, cured diseases ten years ago, to the best of my remembrance, as Gretrakes did, though not so many and various, for this cured cancers, scrofulas, deafness, king's evil, head-ach, epilepsie, fevers though quartan ones, leprosy, palsy, tympany, lameness, numbness of limbs, stone, convulsions, ptysick, sciatica, ulcers, pains of the body, nay, blind and dumb, in some measure, and I know not but he cured the gout. Of all which cures Gretrakes wrote a book, attested by good hands, to which, for brevity's sake I refer the reader. But it is in general to be observed, that although he cured all those diseases, yet he did not succeed in all his applications, nor were