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., amongst other very “strange medicines,” I have described how the hot blood of a newly decapitated criminal is secured as a valuable cure for a disease supposed to be consumption.

Footnote 89:

See the _Collection of Useful Remedies_, by John Moncrief of Tippermalluch; a person of extraordinary skill and knowledge in the Art of Physick. Printed in the Cowgate of Edinburgh in A.D. 1712.

Footnote 90:

See _In the Hebrides_. C. F. Gordon-Cumming. London: Chatto and Windus.

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