II. A letter from Edward Milward, M. D. to Martin Folkes, Esq; President of the Royal Society, concerning an antidote to the Indian poison in West-Indies

Sir, As the Royal Society, Over which you so worthily preside, was instituted for the Advancement and Propagation of Natural Knowledge, and as I am convinced, that every the least Step towards such a Design cannot but be agreeable; I shall do myself the Pleasure of com­municating to you, an extraordinary, specific Anti­dote against the Indian or Negro Poison; which, I doubt not, will be the more acceptable, as this Poison hath hitherto been esteem'd the most destructive of any.