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trailed, the Ulcer was foon cicatrized by the com- 
mon Methods of Cure in fuch Cafes. 
N.B, All thefe Perfons are yet living, and will 
atteft the Truth of the Cafe. 
X. A Letter from Tho. Stack, M. 2). to Sir 
Hans Sloane, Bart, fPr. R. S. &c, contain- 
ing an Account of a Woman fixty-eighc 
Years of Age, nsoho ga^e Suc\ to tnxio of her 
Grand- children. 
Honoured SIR, 
A Gentleman of Credit having lately infornfd me 
of a Woman near feventy Years old, who adu- 
ally fuckles one of her Grand-children, and courte- 
oufly offering to accompany me to her, excited my 
Curiofity to fee fo uncommon a Sight 5 and the rhore, 
in order to try if I could not difeover fome Fallacy 
in the Affair. Wherefore I went Yefterday, inCom- 
pany with the aforefaid Gentleman, to a Houfe in 
Tottenham-Court-Road, where the Woman we in- 
quired for appear’d in an Inftant. Her Breafts were 
full, fair, and void of Wrinkles; though her Face is 
very much wither’d, her Cheeks and Mouth vaftly 
funk in, her Eyes, red, and running with a clammy 
Humour ; and though fhe has, in fhoit, all the other 
external Marks that one may reafonably exped to find 
in a Woman, who has fpent the laft Half of her paft 
Life in Labour, Troubles, and other Concomitants of 
Poverty, and through them has reach’d near to her 
