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 by the application of his hand would become volatil, and remove from the part griev'd, and then like lightning disperse itself by the same application of the hand, into several parts of the body, till at last he would drive it into some extreme part, suppose the fingers, and especially the toes, or the nose or tongue; into which parts when he had forced it, it would make them so cold and insensible, that the patient could not feel the deepest prick of a pin, but as soon as his hand should touch those parts, or gently rub them, the whole distemper vanished, and life and sense immediately returned to those parts. So subtil a thing is the matter of most, or all diseases, and yet at the same time so stupid and deadly, that it is, as it were the first-fruits of Death.

As to the constitution of these two, Coker was a very melancholick man, as I have been informed by those that conversed with him; Gretrakes was quite