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The History of John Bull

CHAPTER XXII
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How he kept a pair of Stillyards to weigh them, and by Diet, Purging, Vomiting, and Bleeding, tried to bring them to equal Bulk and Strength.
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V .-- Of False Accounts of the Weights given in by some of the Journeymen, and of the Newmarket Tricks that were practised at the Stillyards.
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VI .-- How John's New Journeymen brought him other guess Accounts of the Stillyards.
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VII .-- How Sir Swain Northy* was, by Bleeding, Purging, and a Steel Diet, brought into a Consumption, and how John was forced afterwards to give him the Gold Cordial.
* King of Sweden.
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VIII .-- How Peter Bear* was overfed, and afterwards refused to submit to the course of Physic.
* Czar of Muscovy.
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