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CHAP. V.

How Sheffery turned Doctor, and what followed.

SHEFFERY having met with some books of physic, resolved to try what he could do, so finding a receipt in                          English how to make a clyster, was encouraged to go forward in his prac. tice, and living co=ntentedly many years, having but one son, whom he called after the name of Sheffery's                          father, old Shon ap Morgan. During the time of his practice there came to                          him a man who had put his shoulder out of joint, and coming to Sheffery for advice, he told him he must take a                          clyster  The man could not conceive that proper for his shoulder, yet, at last he consented to it; and as they were giving him the clyster, the man strug. gled so very much that his shoulder slipt into its place again, and became a                          perfect cure. This being noised abroad, made Shef- fery famous for a Doctor, so that his