APPENDIX, 
“* confidered the -inftinctive principle 
in all animals of {elf prefervation, 
«© T was confirmed in my difbelief; but 
“* what I have related I faw, and all 
“« theory mutt yield to faét. It is only 
“ the Rudeta, the land toad, which 
«¢ has the property of fucking; I can- 
“‘ not find any the left mention of 
‘“* the property in any one of the old 
“ naturalifts. My patient can bear to 
‘* have but one applied in twenty-four 
«¢ hours: the woman who was cured 
** had them on day and night, with- 
** out intermiffion, for five weeks. 
“ Their time of hanging at the breaft 
“< has been from one to fix hours.” 
The other account is of a woman 
now under the experiment, which I 
give, as delivered to me from un- 
doubted authority. If the event is 
profperous, an early opportunity fhall 
be taken of informing the public of it 
in fome of the news-papers, with all 
circumftances of place, name, &c. 
which at prefent it is needlefs to men- 
tion. 
About fix years ago a poor woman 
received a crufh on her breaft by the 
fall of a pail; a cancerous complaint 
was the refult. 
Lait 

