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or young cod, &c. And unquestionably this was swallowed at least a year be- 

 fore it came away, because the pricking pain he felt when the sharp end of the 

 bone stuok. in the rectum, was the symptom mistaken for the piles ; and when 

 this had made its way through the rectum, and got into the fleshy part, the 

 aposthume followed in course; and the bone being extracted, the ulcer was 

 soon cicatrized by the common methods of cure in such cases. 



Account of a Woman, 68 Years of Age, who gave Such to two of her Grand- 

 children. By Tho. Stack, M. D. N° 433, p. 140. 



A gentleman of credit having informed Dr. S. of a woman near 70 years old, 

 who suckled one of her grand-children, his curiosity was excited to see so un- 

 common a sight ; and the more, in order to try if he could not discover some 

 fallacy in the affair. Wherefore he went in company with the gentleman, to a 

 house in Tottenham-Court-Road, where the woman they inquired for appeared 

 in an instant. Her breasts were full, fair, and void of wrinkles ; though her 

 face was very much withered, her cheeks and mouth vastly sunk in, her eyes 

 red, and running with a clammy humour ; and though she had in short, all the 

 other external marks that one might reasonably expect to find in a woman, who 

 had spent the last half of her past life in labour, troubles, and other concomi- 

 tants of poverty, and through them had reached nearly to her 70th year. On 

 pressing her right breast, she fairly squeezed out milk, which gathered in small 

 drops at 3 of the lacteal ducts terminating in the nipple. This experiment Dr. 

 S. made her repeat a 2d time, having himself carefully dried the end of the 

 nipple with his handkerchief, as he had done before her first trial. Con- 

 vinced of the truth of the fact, he asked her several questions about her case. 

 The substance of her answers was as follows : 



Her name by marriage was Eliz. Brian. She was in the 68th year of her age, 

 and had not borne a child for 20 years and upwards. About 4 years before, her 

 daughter being obliged to leave an infant she then gave suck to, in the care of 

 this her own mother, and likely to be a considerable time absent ; the old wo- 

 man, finding the child froward for want of the breast, applied it to her own, 

 barely in order to quiet the infant, without the least thoughts of milk. And 

 this having reiterated several times, a son of hers, by that time grown a man, 

 perceived that the child seemed to swallow somewhat from the nipple; on which 

 he begged leave of his mother to try if she had not milk. The experiment suc- 

 ceeded : the youth drew milk from that same breast from which he had been 

 weaned above 20 years, and which had been unaccustomed to any for 17 or J 8 

 years before : the good woman then continued to suckle her grand-child in 



