APPENDIX. 



one difcouraged from the purfuit of the remedy. 

 Heaven opens to us gradually its favors : the 

 Joadftone was for ages a meer matter of ignoraht 

 amaze at its attraflive qualities : mercury was a 

 fuppofed poifon, and the terror of phyfician^: we 

 now wonder at the powers of eledlricity, and are 

 ftill but partially acquainted with its ufes : the 

 toad, the objed of horror even in the moil en- 

 lightened times, is found to be perfedly innocent ; 

 it has certainly contributed to the eale (and as has 

 been faid to the cure) of the unhappy cancered ; 

 let the following fads fpeak for themfelves \ they 

 come from perfons of undoubted veracity, and 

 will fufficiently eftablifh the truth of the beneficent 

 qualities of this animal. 



The firft paper relating to it is very ingeni- 

 oufly drawn up by Mr. Pitfield^ for the informa- 

 tion of Dodor Littleton^ Bifhop oi Carlifle (now 

 happy) who immediately honored me with the 

 copy. 



ExoTty Aiigufi 29, 1768. 



" Your lordfhip muft have taken notice of a 

 *' paragraph in the papers, with regard to the ap- 

 *' plication of toads to a cancered bread. A pa- 

 " tient of mine has fent to the neisjhborhood 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 

 C c 3 " operation 



