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from Sight or Heat.
How vegetation may be accounted for.
Thence Animal growth.
S[i]r ISAAC Newton's Laws of the moon defective, with the correction. 
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[[margin]] Effects of Emetic Tartar by external Absorption [[/margin]]

Emetic tartar, in a quantity of about five grains,
rubbed in at night upon the hands, after some hours,
produced a nausea; the next morning copious perspiration, and afterwards a tendency to increase the discharge of urine, and a little greater power in procuring some lax stools: nine grains were followed by these effects in a greater degree. The author Mr. J suspects, that this this way of employing antimony may have particular advantages in [[strikethrough]] cuten- [[/strikethrough]] cutaneous eruptions. Crit. Review. May, 1789. p.318.
[[margin]] To cure the Kinkcough by Hemlock. [[/margin]]
In the monthly Review Vol. 50 Janu[ary] 1774. p.45 is a Review of " [[underline]] A Treatise on the Kinkcough, [[/underline]] with an appendix, containg an account of Hemlock, and its Preparations. By William Butter, M.D. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh. 8.00 3d. sewed[[??]] Cadell 1773.-- Here Hemlock is reckoned specific in the disease of the Kinkcough (commonly called the chincough) and after enumerating many of its virtues, the Dr. gives this receipt
[[left column]]2-1/2 Ounces of spring water
0-1/2 Syrup of pale roses
1 Grain of Hemlock--pill[[/left column]]
[[right column]]to be mixed and taken in several doses, so as to be finished in the 24 hours.[[/right column]]
The quantity of hemlock is to be gradually increased from one grain to 10 or 12 grains, according to the age of the patient, or the effect of the medicine.
[[margin]] Cramps cured by applying the finger to the moisture under the toes and smelling to it every night at going to bed. [[/margin]]
A Discourse on Pain. Preached at Bath. By James Fordyce, D.D. 1791. In a note at p. 43, the Author relates the following remarkable cure of the Cramp.
He has, for some years past, been happily relieved from the exquisite torture of the Cramp in his legs and feet, to which he was long subject in the night-time; insufferable pain frequently forced him to spring out of bed, till the contractions went off, what ever might be the season of the year, or state of his health; nor had he, from all his equiries [[?]] and experiments, find any better remedy, till mentioning it to an acquaintance, who kindly recommended to him a preventive, which had proved to himself, and many others, whom he intimately knew, as effectual as it was easy; however unaccountable it may appear, and perhaps to some ludicrous. It was simply this, touch with the finger, at going to bed every night, the moisture under the toes, and hold it for a moment to the nostrils. The method was tried, and succeeded perfectly, to the unspeakable comfort of him who now tells it. Let physicians find out how the effect is produced. He is content to feel and [[strikethrough]] assert [[/strikethrough]] afsert its reality in his own instance. The relief took place at once, and has continued ever since; unless when the practice was omitted through inattention; or in catching cold in the legs or feet, from want of due care to keep them dry and warm, both by day and by night.