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 tl An Hiftorical Account wicked Importers ^ for all Events contra- dialed their Pretenffons, and hardly a Per^ fon efcaped that trufted to their Delusions : Their Medicines were more fatal than the Plague, and added to the Numbers of the Dead : But thefe Blowers of the Pefti- lential Flames were caught in the common Ruin, and by their Death in feme Mea- ftire excufed the Neglett of the Magi- stracy, in fuffering their Practice. Nee Lex eft jufiior ulla Quam necis Artifices Arte ferire fua. ftinclion and great Humanity, going to France upon fome Affairs of State, heard that fome Frenchmen were Matters of an Anti-peflilential Remedy, and took Care to fend fome Dofes of it over here : By Command of the Government we were ordered to try it with due Caution, which we did, with Expectations of uncommon Succefs, but the Mountain brought forth Death - 7 for the Medicine, which was a Mineral Preparation, threw the Patients into their laft Sleep. May it never hereafter be injoined to try Experiments with unknown and foreign Medicines, upon the Lives even of
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