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_its inmate; in a word, all kind of 
evil paffions have been beftowed on it: 
It is but juftice therefore to fay fome- 
thing in behalf of an animal that has 
of late had fo many tryalsof its temper, 
from experiments occafioned by the new 
difcovery of its cancer-fucking quali- 
ties. It has born all the handling, teiz- 
ing, bagging, &c. &c. without the 
left fign of a vindictive difpofition ; but 
has even made itfelf a facrifice to the 
difcharge of its office: this I know 
from the refult of much enquiry 3 | 
would I could contradiét what is 
afferted, p. 10, of the inefficacy of 
the tryals made of them in the moft 
horrible of difeafes ; for at this time [ 
myfelf cannot bring one proof of the 
fuccefs. But I would not have any one 
difcouraged from the purfuit of the re- 
medy. Heaven opens to us gradually 
its favors: the /oad/tone was for ages a 
“meer matter of ignorant amaze at its 
attractive qualities : mercury was a fup- 
pofed poifon, and the terror of phyfi- 
cians : we now wonder at the powers 
of electricity, and are ftill but partially 
acquainted with its ufes: the toad, the 
object of horror even in the moft en- 
lightened times, is found to be perfectly | 
innocent ; it has certainly contributed 
to the eafe (and as has been faid to the 
cure) 

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