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tions with good courage, being very defirous to lire, 
though in this miferable condition. 
On the 1 2th of July I took off both her hands : I 
had very little more to do, than faw the bones, na- 
ture having flopped the bleeding, when (he flopped 
the mortification. In a day or two after, I took 
off all the toes from both feet, and now difcon- 
tinued the bark, the parts appearing in a healthy 
and healing condition ; which went on fo for five 
weeks, when, on a fudden, the parts began to look 
livid, her ffomach failed her, and flie was feverifh ; 
but, upon taking an ounce of the bark, in 36 hours 
her fores began again to look well. She was not 
fuffered to leave off the bark fo foon this time, but 
continued taking it twice a day for a month. She 
is now almoft well : that part of her face, from 
whence the nofe mortified, was healed in feven weeks ; 
the flumps of both arms are intirely healed ; and 
both feet are well, only waiting for one piece of bone 
fcaling oft', which I believe will be in a very fhort 
time *, and fhe is now in £ood health. 
The perfon, who gave her this medicine, is a Bar- 
ber and Peruke- maker at Bow. I applied to him 
l'everal times, to inform me what it was he had given 
her. The affair was talked of fo much in his neigh- 
bourhood, and the man threatned by the woman’s 
hulband, that for a long time I could not get him to 
tell me, till I told him, I had been informed where 
he bought the medicines ; and the time of the day, that 
he had them, correfponding with the time of his giv- 
ing them to the woman, and that I knew it was tinc- 
ture of myrrh, lie at laft told me, that he had fre- 
quently given the above quantity of an ounce and half 
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