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from persons of undoubted veracity, and will 

 sufficiently establish the truth of the beneficent 

 qualities of this animal. 



The first paper relating to it is very inge- 

 niously drawn up by Mr. Pitfield, for the in- 

 formation of Doctor Littleton, Bishop of Car- 

 lisle (now happy) who immediately honored me 

 with the copy. 



Exon, August 29, 1768. 

 " Your lordship must have taken notice of a 

 " paragraph in the papers, with regard to the 

 " application of toads to a cancered breast. A 

 " patient of mine has sent to the neighborhood 

 " of Hungerford, and brought down the very 

 " woman on whom the cure was done. I 

 " have, with all the attention I am capable of, 

 " attended the operation for eighteen or twenty 

 " days, and am surprized at the phenomenon. 

 " I am in no expectation of any great service 

 " from the application : the age, constitution, 

 " and thoroughly cancerous condition of the 

 " person, being unconquerable barriers to it. 

 " How an ail of that kind, absolutely local, in 

 " an otherwise sound habit, and of a likely age, 

 " might be relieved, I cannot say. But as to 

 " the operation, thus much I can assert, that 

 " there is neither pain nor nauseousness in it. 



