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sight, and enquired of the nurse. What strange measures she had taken to recover him? who very readily told him. what an unaccountable refreshment she had given him. Nurse, says the doctor very gravelv, smelling to a civet-box of his ebony cane. You have done very well: Pray let him have more toasted cheese, and more leek porridge, and I will call again tomorrow, and see how it agrees with him. The patient liked it so well, that as often as they repeated it, he was willing to take it, till in a little time the Welchman was thoroughly recovered ,upon which the nurse was well paid, and the physician had the reputation of a very wonderful cure. In a little time after this miraculous success, the doctor happened to have an English patient exactly in the same condition; that by all the rules of art, by, which he governed his practice, he could not administer one medicine that would abate the distemper: At last, calling to mind What a wonderful cure the nurse and he had so lately, performed, by toasted cheese and leek porridge, not knowing but there might be some occult quality in one or the other, more than physicans were accquainted with, he resolved to make trial of their virtues a second time, and accordingly Directed the nurse to administer them to the patient, whom the doctor declared was absolutely fast recovery by any other means. The nurse thought it strange advice from a college physician; but, however, it being his directions, she was resolved to observe them; and accordingly provided a plentiful plateful of balsamic Cheshire. toasted secundum artem, which with much ado, she persuaded her patient to