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For the Toothache I have found the following medicine very available, Brimstone and Gunpowder compounded with butter; rub the mandible with it, the outside being first warm'd.

John Josselyn

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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John Josselyn

John Josselyn

Born: 1638
Died: 1675 (aged 37)
Bio: John Josselyn was a seventeenth-century English traveler to New England who wrote with credulity about what he saw and heard during his sojourn there before returning to England.
Known for:
  1. New-Englands rarities discovered (1672)
  2. John Josselyn, colonial traveler

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