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out of the bag, the open end ought to be made 

 with an open hem, that the firing may run the 

 more readily, and fatten tightly about the neck. 



It would be improper to quit the fubjecl: with- 

 out mentioning the origin of this flrange difco- 

 very, which was owing to a woman near Hunger- 

 ford, who labored under a cancerous complaint 

 in her bread, which had long baffled all applica- 

 tions. 



The account me gives of the manner in which 

 fhe came by her knowledge is fingular, and I may 

 fay apocryphal. She fays of herfelf, that in the 

 height of her diforder fhe went to fome church 

 where there was a vaft crowd : on going into a 

 pew, fhe was accofted by a flrange clergyman, who, 

 after exprefflng companion for her fituation, told 

 her that if fhe would make fuch an application 

 of living toads * as abovementioned, fhe would be 

 well. 



This dark flory is all we can collect relating to 

 the affair. It is our opinion that fhe Humbled up- 

 on the difcovery by accident, and that having fet 

 up for a cancer do&refs, fhe thought it necefTary to 



* I have been told that fhe not only made ufe of living 

 toads, but permitted the dead ones to remain at her breaft, 

 by way of cataplafms, for fome weeks, 



I have been informed that the relation of this flrange 

 method of cure was brought over a few years ago by one 

 of our foreign minifters ; and that there is alfo notice taken 

 of it in Wheeler's Travels. 



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