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Evidence
§. Interest purged off by releases.
The deleterious corruptive influence of mercury upon the body, is but
too well ascertained notorious. An modern of newspaper t'other day mercury advertised An operator of newspaper celebrity invented
a machine used to be advertized not long ago many years ago for extracting it out of the bones. The
corruptive influence of interest upon the heart, is (alas!)
a point equally indisputable. An apparatus for the extraction
of it was invented – (in what day month no nor not even year can
say ye Solydiers and ye Bickman's if ye can a Polydore or even a Bickman can pronounce) by the ingenuity
of some English sage. A quantity of parchment and
wax and parchment is provided together with a seal. A cabalistic formulary is pronounced from the patients lips, and at the same instant the seal
is upon the wax. No sooner has the
parted from the wax its bed, than the lying spirit has taken his matter of mendacity
flight out of the heart has rushed out of the heart. The instrument by
which this purification is accomplished is stiled in scientific language, a release.
Into a bone into which no mercury had ever entered, the
machine could never be convicted of having left a single particle.
In all cases where the fact to be discerned to which the patient
has had an interest in deposing to had really happened, the success
efficacy of the releasing apparatus has been found equally indisputable alike unquestionable.
Suppose any the least tendency to mendacity,
the efficacy of the two apparatus's is exactly upon a par.
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