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to goe out of the mouth like something extreamly cold, & that he himself [ 'do' deleted] has now & than felt that coldnesse they [ 'com' deleted] complaind of, which makes me remember that an <ould> woman whom I saw him cureing of an auncient lamenesse, and complaind that he had driven the pain from her thigh & knee into her foot, when I askd her what she felt there, she very seriously affirmd to me that with much pain she felt a coldnesse, as if cold water (for that was her expression) was pourd upon the bottome of her toes.

He likewise answerd me that he had oftentimes curd wounds almost as strangely as other distempers, & that not only the <contact>[replacing 'laying on'] of his hand presently takes off the pain of [ 'it' deleted] them, but that by barely laying his hand on the Bedclothes where the Patient layes, he [ 'los' deleted] performes the same thing, of which he namd me an eminent instance in a knowne Person.