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OBoher i6th, the patient better. It was thought 

 proper as winter was coming on, and of courfe it 

 would be very difficult to procure a number of 

 toads, to apply more at a time, fo three were put 

 on at once. The fwelling in the arm abated, and 

 the woman's reft was good. 



During thefe tryals fhe took an infufion oi Wa-* 

 ter Parfnep with Pulvis Cornacchini. 



December i8th, continued to look ill, but finds 



herfelf better : two of the wounds were now healed. 



She was always moft eafy when the toads were 



fucking, of which fhe killed vaft numbers in the 



operation. 



January iy6g. The laft account that was re- 

 ceived, informing that the patient was better. 

 The remarks made on the animals are thefe : 

 Some toads died very foon after they had fuck- 

 ed ; others lived about a quarter of an hour, 

 but fome lived much longer : for example, one 

 that was applied about feven o'clock fucked till 

 ten, and died as foon as it was tdcen from the 

 breaft ^ another that immediately fucceeded conti- 

 nued till three o'clock, but dropped dead from the 

 wound, each fwelled exceedingly, and turned of 

 a pale color, 



Thefe toads did not feem to fuck greedily, and 

 would often turn their heads away; but during the 

 time of fucking were heard to fmack their lips 

 like a young child. 



As thofe reptiles are apt by their ftruggles to get 



out 



