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ANN James of the parifh of Boughton Mon- 
^ chelfey in Kent, aged 55 years, a married wo- 
man, had for fome years complained of a pain, 
and hard lump in each bread:. In September 1762 
die afked my advice about them : upon examining 
them I found a very hard fchirrus in each bread : 
that in the left bread, had the mamillary glands 
indurated and knobbed like ramifications toward 
the axilla, a little adhelion to the pedtoral rnufcle ; 
was as big as a turkey’s egg, and fhe was under 
daily apprchenfions, that it would break. That in 
the right bread was not near lo large, or had 
ramifications nor adhered like the other. She com- 
plained of mod excruciating dabbing pains in both 
breads, which prevented her having any red in the 
night, and made her fo very miferable all day, whe- 
ther fhe lay down, dood, fat, or walked, that fhe 
was unable, not only to go out to work, but even 
to do any thing for her family at home, not even to 
make her own bed and fhe had totally lod her ap- 
petite : her ufual employ was fpinning, wadnng, 
brewing, and what we in London call the bufinefs 
of a chairwoman. The breads were but little dis- 
coloured, but the pains fhe defcribed, and the ra- 
mifications attending the fchirrus, in the left bread, 
induced me to pronounce it a cancer. 
I advifed her to take the green hemlock, viz. 
cicuta major vulgaris caule maculofo ; mince it with 
parfly (to difguife the tade) and eat it with bread 
and butter twice or three times in a day, the third 
part of a leaf, or one of the three dividons, which 
are in each leaf, at a time 5 that her condant drink 
5 diould 
