38 FHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO 1763. 



He advised her to take the green hemlock, viz. cicuta major vulgaris caule 

 maculoso ; to mince it with parsley, to disguise the taste, and eat it with bread 

 and butter twice or three times in a day, the 3d part of a leaf, or one of the 

 3 divisions, which are in each leaf, at a time ; that her constant drink should 

 be lime water and milk ; that she should take as many millepedes every day, as 

 her stomach would bear, or she could get ; that her body should be kept open 

 by rhubarb or magnesia, as occasion required ; and that she should have an issue 

 in her arm, and lose 6 or 8 oz. of blood once in 6 or 8 weeks, if her pains 

 continued. He desired a leaf might be weighed, that he might ascertain the 

 quantity of each dose, and found she took 15 grs. of the green plant 3 times 

 in a day: finding it agree with her stomach, and that it eased her pains, 

 though it caused a tingling to her fingers' ends, she increased the quantity. In 

 the beginning of Nov. she had a very large menstrual discharge, which had not 

 happened to her for many years before ; the schirrus was much lessened, and 

 her pains were considerably abated. 



About the end of Nov. she found her breast more swelled, and the pain 

 more acute than it had been for 6 weeks before ; had a restlessness, giddiness 

 in her head, and weight over her eyes ; the discharge of the issue stopped, and 

 a violent humour came all round the orifice. As he had desired a little blood 

 might be taken away, if occasion required it, she was bled about the last day of 

 Nov. on which she fainted away, and afterwards had fainting fits 2 or 3 times 

 in a day, great sickness at her stomach, and sometimes bled at the nose. On 

 these symptoms coming on, though she had taken somewhat purgative twice in 

 a week, from her first beginning to take the hemlock, it was thought proper ta 

 suspend the taking the hemlock for some days. He then ordered her an infu- 

 sion of the cortex Peruvianus J oz. in powder, to a quart of spring water, to 

 let it stand 3 or 4 days, shaking it every day ; and then that she should take 3' 

 spoonfuls twice in a day; that she should repeat the hemlock in the same 

 quantity she took at the first; that she should not again exceed that quantity on 

 any account ; and that she should continue the lime-water and the millepedes. 



About the latter end of Dec. she had a regular appearance of her menses, but 

 very moderate, her pains were very much abated, and the schirrus much less, 

 though she often complained of a swimming in her head, and a restlessness in 

 the night. From this time, viz. the end of Dec. she continued mending in all 

 respects so much that he heard nothing of her till March 1763 ; when he was 

 told that Ann James was surprisingly recovered, that her cancer was much les- 

 sened, that she could use her arms, work for herself and family, and that her 

 pains were so much abated that she was quite happy. 



In Sept. he was at Boughton, saw her, and examined her breasts : the 

 schirrus in her left breast was not half so large as when he saw il before ; the 



