392 A P P E N D I X. 



" left mention of the property in any one of the 

 old naturalifts. My patient can bear to have 

 but one applied in twenty-four hours : the wo- 

 man who was cured had them on day and 

 nighr, without intermiffion, for five weeks. Their 

 " time of h angina; at the bread has been from one 

 " to fix hours." 



The other is of a woman who made the ex- 

 periment, which I give, as delivered to me from 

 f* undoubted authority. 



About fix years * ago a poor woman received a 

 crufh on her breaft by the fall of a pail ; a com- 

 plaint in that part was the refult. 



Laft year her diforder increafed to an alarming 

 degree j fhe had five wounds on her breafts, one 

 exceeding large, from which fragments of bone 

 worked out, giving her vaft pain-, and at the fame 

 time there was 3, great difcharge of thin yellow 

 matter : (he was likewife reduced to a meer fkele- 

 ton. 



AH her left fide and flomach was much fwel- 

 led ; her fingers doughy and difcolored. 



On the 25th of September, 1768, the firft toad 

 was applied -, between that and the 29th fhe ufed 

 feven, and had that night better reft. She fwal- 

 lowed with greater eafe, for before that time there 

 was fome appearance of tumor in her neck, and 

 a difficulty of getting any thing down. 



* f, e, from 1769, 



Oftober 



