a young maid was seized with fits and evidently possessed, physicians were unable to cure her so the author was called to do so, he made a mixture and included the recipe, after much instigation the devil left her
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Includes accounts of robberies and other crimes, in addition to the trial of Iane Kent, who bewitched to death a five-year old after first bewitching her father’s swine, tried to make a business transaction with him but wouldn’t pay, after which his daughter’s body started swelling, he was advised by a doctor to boil his wife’s hair and other things, which caused the witch pain and made her swell the next day, one women found a teat on her back and holes behind her ears but she was found not guilty.
starts as a theoretical letter to the College of Physicians in London, discusses the suffocation of mother Written but mostly a theoretical/medical discourse about possession and disease, brings up other cases, describes her fits,