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to relieve her ? Nothing but the taking off Her Thigh, » 
which (be wou d not confent to. I was not forry tor 
her not admitting of that Operation, becaufe I could not 
expe^i: any Succefs in the performing it, by reafon of her 
Age, Weaknefs, &c. So I took leave of her, fuppofing 
I Ihou’d never fee her more. I advifed her Friends to 
continue the ufe of the Fomentation, which they did 
almoft Night and Diy. About a Month ^fter, I coming 
to Maidenhead^ was furprized to find this poor Woman 
alive. There was now a difeharge of a Black Foetid 
Matter, at a fmall Orifice about the middle of the Infide 
of her Thigh, which Orifice I enlarged to make a better 
difeharge for the Matter. I likewife cut into a Tumour 
that appeared upon her Knee, but found nothing in it 
hut Wmd. I then took my leave of her, (as before) 
advifing to continue fomenting daily. About a Month 
or 5 Weeks afterwards, I came to Maidenhead again, and 
found her alive, and to my admiration faw that, which 
thro’ the whole courfc of my Life I may never fee again, 
how Nature had made a perfed Separation of the 
mortify ’d Flelh from the found, quite round theThigb,the 
Bone of the Thigh lying wholly bare above the breadth 
of 4 Finger*, and deprived of its Periofieum. The Flefh 
above was frefh and florid, and had good white Matter 
upon it. I now perfwaded her .to let me take off her 
Thigh, which I did about 2 Fingers breadth in the found 
Flefh, (becaufe the Flefh run tapering down to the Bone,) 
by which I made the Stump pretty even. The Bleeding 
was little, by reafon that the Veins and Arteries (which 
were eaten afunder by the mortifying Matter) Nature 
had clofed again. I Dreft the Stump with P«/. Refiring, 
mixt with Album. Ovor. fpread upon Pledgets, and dipt' 
in 01 , Terebinth, hot. The next Dreffings Fufed Dige- 
ftives, and performed the reft of the Cure according to 
the Rules of our Art. The Woman is alive to this Day, 
and now liveth in Maidenhead over againft the Bear Inn. 
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