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mals. She thought she could feel three of 

 them, and that herself, as well as persons 

 who sat near her, could hear them croak. 

 Her uneasiness was in some degTee alle- 

 viated by drinking brandy. Salt had no 

 effect in destroying the frogs. Another 

 person, who for some years had had the 

 same complaint, took doses of Nilv Vomica, 

 and was cured ; but even this powerful re- 

 medy had been tried on this woman in 

 vain. I advised her to try tar, but that 

 she had already taken without success, 

 having been obliged to throw it up again*. 



* Linnoeus writes as if he did not absolutely disbe- 

 lieve the existence of these frogs, which were as much 

 out of their place as Jonah in the whale's belly. The 

 patient probably laboured under a debility of the sto- 

 mach and bowels, not uncommon in a more luxuri- 

 ous state of society, which is attended with frequent 

 internal noise from wind, especially when the mind 

 is occasionally agitated. Yet the idea of frogs or toads 

 in the stomach has often been credited. Not many 

 years ago a story appeared in the Norwich paper, of a 

 gentleman's servant having eaten toad-spawn with 

 water cresses, which being hatched, occasioned dread- 



