Particular from the Universal

as an astringent, which I had prepared from the farmer’s iron rust. But when she complained heavily of a great headache afterward, I gave her 3 grains of this precipitate in brandy. The woman felt better from that hour, and gradually so well that she did not know how to thank me enough.

Hereupon I tried this particular also on a person suffering from hectic fever a wasting disease, possibly tuberculosis who had been abandoned by the physicians, and on another person almost rotted away with many holes in their body, both internally and externally, with swift and quite miraculous effects.

And when, upon request, I tested it further on many mostly desperate cases and some already held for half-dead