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A delation vcTttten to the ?ublifher from a ferjon of great verA- 
city in Q^xwsdXVj ^concerning m agedvpommof do years ^giving 
fuck to her Grand-child^S^iC, 
I Cannot but impart unto you fomething lately bapn'd in niy 
faiinly,which is,That,having taken two months ago a Nurle 
for my little girl,(fmcedeadj the boy of that Nurfe, having 
been on that occafion weaned, did, by repeated fucking the 
breaitsofhisgrand-mocher, a womanof three fcore years of 
age,caure fuch a commotion in her, that abundance of milk run 
to her breads for a fufficienc nourilbment to the faid weaned 
boy,whomalfomy nurfe, his mother,^fter (he returned home 
upon the death of my girl, now again gives fuck to, though her 
breafis had been for fome weeks dryed up. | 
So far this relation: Which as it can be confirmed by many 
other like Stories, given by very credible perfons, fo 1 fhall 
herefecond it but with one only,recorded by the LearnedD/^- 
merbroeckm thefecond Book of his Anatome corferis hummi 
r^/?.2. /^^^.408. (of which Book an account is given at the end 
of this very TraS.) The relation is as follows : At Viana^ a 
town very near us, fome years ago, a poor woman, living be- 
fore the town-gar^, and being brought to bed of a fine boy not 
long after the death of her husband, and dying prefently after 
her delivery, left her child behind her in good health ; but 
leaving nothing to keep a Nurfe to give the child 
fuck , the grand-mother of the babe, called Jomna Ynyltuyt^ 
beingyet living, a "^'ommoi three fcore and fix ytzrs ofage,but 
very poor alfoand not able to pay a Nurfe, out of great pity 
to the poor child. attempted,though at that age, togivie it fuck 
herfelf; in which undertaking fliefacceeded fo well, i that ha- 
ving out of her great commiferation put her crying grand- 
child feveral times to her breafts to fuck, thefe breafts did, 
from that old woman*s'ftrong imagination and vehement defire 
to give fuck to this child,begin toyield milk,and contmued fo 
to do with that plcnty,tbat it wasfufficient to feed the child,fo 
that it hardly needed any other food 5 which all that faw it 
much wondred at,and which can be attefted by many veracious 
-citizens of the faid town. 
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