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Dr. Holders related that he had known the oyle of tobacco made
by blowing the smoke vpon ones nayle or a knife being put
vpon Lint & stopt into the hollow of a rotten tooth to cure the
toothake. .mr Hooke mentiond that Sr. Chr: Wren had for
mely told him that he knew a maid seruant by the vse of that
medicine cast into conuulsions which had like to haue cost her
her life -

Dr. croon Related that he had been informed by mr whitchurch
who had liued some time In India that mountebanks.

Sr. R Southwell Related that he had been informed that the
best Remedy against poysond arrows was presently to Eat
mens excrements-

mr. Hooke mentiond the odde effects that were wrote vpon the
children of a poor woeman who vsed to gather physicall herbs
for mr Drinkwater by eating some roots of Henbane which
they had mistaken for parsneps. how they all fell stark mad
but were cured in some short time by the said Drinkwater by
the taking of Alexipharmakes & sweating-

Dr. Holder Proposed M Sr. Charles Steward the son of Sr. Nicho
las Steward as a Candidate of this Society
vpon occasion of a Discourse. wch arose about the Bredth of the north part of America &
/of the neernesse of the South Sea to Hudsons bay/
Sr. Rob: Southwell noted that in Sr. Walter Rawleighs
time it was thought that the south sea was not aboue
40 or 50/th/ miles from the north sea, and he had seen
it soe described in a map . wch was the Reason that
In the patent of Virginia the King had granted
them from Sea to Sea

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