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70 th Year. Upon preffing her right Breaft, fhc fairly 
fqneez’d out Milk, which gather’d in fmall Drops at 
three of the LadealDufts terminating in the Nipple. 
This Experiment I made her repeat a fecond time, 
having myfelf carefully dry’d the End of the Nipple 
with my Handkerchief, as 1 had done before her firft 
Trial. Convinced of the Truth of the Fad, I ask’d 
her feveral Queftions, in order to procure Materials 
for a Hiftory thereof. The Subftance of her Anfwers 
was as follows : 
Her Name by Marriage is Elizabeth Brian. She 
is in the fixty-eighth Year of her Age fince laft;' 
OBober, and has not borne a Child thefe twenty 
Years and upwards. About four Years fince, her 
Daughter being obliged to leave an Infant fhe then 
gave Suck to, in the Care of this her own Mother, 
and likely to be a confiderable time abfent 5 the,, old 
Woman, finding the Child froward for want of the 
Breaft, apply’d it to her own, barely in order to quiet 
the Infant, without the lead Thoughts of Milk. And 
this having reiterated feveral times, a Son of hers, by 
that time grown a Man, perceiv’d that the Child 
feem’d to fwallow fomewhat from the Nipple 5 where- 
upon he begg’d Leave of his Mother to try if fhe had> 
not Milk. The Experiment fucceeded : The Youth 
drew Milk from that fame Breaft from which he had- 
been wean’d above twenty Years, and which had been, 
unaccuftom’d to any for feventeen or eighteen Years 
before : The good Woman then continued to fuckle 
her Grand- child in earneft; And in fome time her 
Daughter, 'viz. the Infant’s Mother, feeing fhe was 
provided with fuch an extraordinary and tender Nurfe, 
was embolden’d to bid fair for an Increafe of Iflue, 
which 
