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Upon which, at nine o’clock that night fhe Tent for 
an apothecary, from whom, I have fince been infor- 
med, the perfon before mentioned had bought the 
medicine, which he gave her. The apothecary was 
not at home ; his journeyman went, and finding the 
woman had a difficulty of breathing, ordered her a mix- 
ture with fperma ceti and ammoniacum to be taken 
occafionally. The apothecary did not fee her himfelf 
till the 1 6th of June, when finding her in a very bad 
condition, that her hands, and feet, and nofe, were 
intirely black, and had many veficles or fmall bladders 
upon them, filled with a blackifh bloody water ; he: 
opened them, and let out the fluid, and dreffed them 
with yellow bafilicon ; and in this manner continued 
treating her till the 20th of the fame month, when, 
finding no material alteration for the better, he or- 
dered her a brownifh mixture, of which fine was to 
take four fpoonfuls every four hours; which, he in- 
formed me, was a decoClion of the bark; and fays, 
on taking this, fire was better, as the mortification 
teemed inclined to flop. But as it was a bad cafe, he 
advifed the woman to be carried to an hofpital : and 
in this condition was fhe brought in, when fire was 
immediately put into a courfe of the bark, taking a 
drachm of the powder every four hours ; and in 48 
hours taking it there was a perfect feparation of all 
the mortified parts. She was then ordered to take 
it only three times in 24 hours; and purfuing this me- 
thod for eight days, there was a very good digeffion 
from the parts above the mortification. 
The mortified part became now fo offenfive, that 
the poor woman preffed me much to take off her 
hands, affixing me fire w r ould go through tire opera* 
tions* 
