APPENDIX 233 
cure) of the unhappy cancered ; let 
the following facts {peak 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 
ingenioufly drawn up by Mr. Pitfeld, 
for the information of Dottor Littleton, 
Bifhop of Carlifle, (now happy) who 
immediately honored me with the copy. 
Exon, Aug. 29, 1768. 
< Your lordfhip muft have taken 
«< notice of a paragraph in the papers, 
«¢ with regard to the application of 
<< toads to a cancered breaft. A pa- 
“< tient of mine has fent to the neigh- 
“* borhood of Hungerford, and brought 
“© down the very woman on whom the 
“© cure was done. I have, with all 
“¢ the attention I am capable of, at- 
*¢ tended the operation for eighteen or 
“< twenty days, and am furprized at 
“* the phanomenon. I am in no ex- 
“* pectation of any great fervice from 
the application: the age, conftitu- 
tion, and thoroughly cancerous con- 
dition of the perfon, being uncon- 
“¢ querable barriers to it. How an 
“* ail of that kind, abfolutely local, in 
an otherwife found habit, and of a 
Y 4 “¢ likely 
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