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more readily, and faften tightly about 
the neck. 
It would be improper to quit the 
fubje& without mentioning the ori- 
gin of this ftrange difcovery, which 
was Owing to a woman near Hunger- 
ford, who labored under a cancerous 
complaint in her breaft, which had 
long baffled all applications. 
The account fhe gives of the man- 
mer in which fhe came by her know- 
lege is very fincular, and I may fay 
apocryphal. She fays of herfelf, that 
in the height of ther diforder fhe went 
te fome chunk where there was a vatt 
crowd: on going into a pew, fhe was 
accotted bp a fijanee clergyman, who, 
after expreffing compalfion for her 
fituation, told her that if the would 
make fuich an application of living 
toads*-as abovementioned, fhe noe 
be well. 
This dark ftory is all we can collea 
relating to the affair. It is our Opi- 
nion that fhe ftumbled upon the dit. 
covery by accident, and that having 
fet up for a cancer doétrefs, the thought 
it neceflary to amufe the world with 
* T have been told that the not only made ufeof livins toads, 
but cia ae the dead anes to remain at her breaf, by: way of 
eataplafms, for fome weeks. 
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