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Rh worthy men have confidence in their skill. So the tar water of Bishop Berkley, the weapon ointment of Hildanus, and the metallic tractors of Perkins, gained a higher and wider celebrity. So Boyle held that the thigh bone of an executed criminal was a specific in dysentery, Bacon believed in charms and amulets, and Martin Luther in the efficacy of toads.