[ 45« 3 • 
:BlMlcl©P? 1 fHk {3kfeU my Fore-finger and fTIii^ 
^to' ffie iWQuhd^^ and got hold of the head, oi the Bod- 
kin, (the fubftatice of the Bladder only being between } 
upon whieh^ with a fmall crooked Bijiore ^ I cut the 
'Bladder, and by gently preffing. my Finger and Tixumb 
Mhh Sodkin flipt dui of the Bladder between them,' by 
Which I very eafily extrafted it. i drelVd the wound 
and put her into Bed, and in lefs than a month,, by 
Gods great bleffing,flie vvas perfejftly cur'd, and as free 
from any inconvneience, occafion'd by fwallQwing the 
-Bodkiri^^'as'Weriflie was'in her life.': ? 
"^Iton) oHi?E^/ ri3inv' 
'E, the Phyfidans under-narned^;do liereby cer- 
tify, that all the particulars of the .ChirurgicaSl 
operation of es^tra&ing? the Bodkin osut. of ilbe Bladdel: 
of D^r^^j* S/rf^e^ as coritained in tiie iorfgciiiig^coiia^, 
ar^ truly 'arid' feithfully related^ it being^performd. by 
Mr Thomas Pr<?^, Mafter Chiruregoni with great.skiU 
and fuccefs in our prefence, as witnefs CHij^.HandiSj^ . tbi?^. 
^^d of My', 1695- a 13V- r^fi^J bnB 
io . ' : , ... jm:jo:oL 01 noqrj 
- oic^Mkdde^z^VrQM:. ^ t. ,. iv,. : iMMi^ijifmtXilii rii 
DOrcas Blake^ of Filhamhle-jlreet^ in the Pariflr of 
• St John Spinjler^cmic - thi5 day bafore me,aiKl be^ 
ing ftvorn on the holy Evangehlb^^ that the. a- 
lK>ve relation ii tme in. Jfo^ and? that flie did 
fwallow the Bodkin-therein mentioned, and that the 
Bodkin now %wed to herJ? the former- - 
ly;'Iwallow-d*.j'' -a. cjiJ rj^in .. • ■ \ ■ ■ 
rbifiv/^,nrj!Lclf srlt b7i:fi < . heno^^d 
■ ■ -''-^^ • .mark. 
J/^rat coram me deetmadk Jimii 1 695. 
— ^ a Blackall Major.MUn,. ' Tte 
