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" woman who was cured had them on day and 

 " night, without intermission, for five weeks. 

 " Their time of hanging at the breast has been 

 " from one to six hours." 



The other is of a woman who made the expe- 

 riment, which I give, as delivered to me from 

 undoubted authority. 



About six years* ago a poor woman received 

 a crush on her breast by the fall of a pail ; a 

 complaint in that part was the result. 



Last year her disorder increased to an alarm- 

 ing degree ; she had five wounds on her breasts, 

 one exceedingly large, from which fragments of 

 bone worked out, giving her vast pain ; and at 

 the same time there was a great discharge of 

 thin yellow matter : she was likewise reduced to 

 a mere skeleton. 



All her left side and stomach was much swell- 

 ed ; her fingers doughy and discolored. 



On the 25th of September ', 1 768, the first toad 

 was applied ; between that and the 29th she 

 used seven, and had that night better rest. 

 She swallowed with greater ease, for before 

 that time there was some appearance of tumor 

 in her neck, and a difficulty of getting any thing 

 down. 



* i. e. from 1769. 



