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Oclober 16th, the patient better. It was thought 

 proper as winter was coming on, and of courfe it 

 would be very difficult to procure a number of 

 toads, to apply more at a time, fo three were put 

 on at once. The fwelling in the arm abated, and 

 the woman's reft was good. 



During thefe tryals lhe took an infufion of Wa- 

 fer Parfnep with Pulvis CornacchinL 



December 18th, continued to look ill, but finds 

 herfelf better : two of the wounds were now healed. 



She was always mod eafy when the toads were 

 fucking, of which me killed vaft numbers in the 

 operation. 



January 1769. The lad account that was re- 

 ceived, informing that the patient was better. 



The remarks made on the animals are thefe : 



Some toads died very foon after they had fuck- 

 ed \ others lived about a quarter of an hour, 

 but fome lived much longer: for example, one 

 that was applied about feven o'clock fucked till 

 ten, and died as foon as it was taken from the 

 bread •, another that immediately fucceeded conti- 

 nued till three o'clock, but dropped dead from the 

 wound, each fwelled exceedingly, and turned of 

 a pale color. 



Thefe toads did not feem to fuck greedily, and 

 would often turn their heads away; but during the 

 time of fucking were heard to fmack their lips 

 like a yoqng child. 



As thofe reptiles are apt by their ftruggles to get 



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