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fymptoms coming on, notwithdanding die had 
t?ken fomewhat purgative twice in a week, from 
from her firft beginning to take the hemlock, it 
was thought proper to fufpend the taking the hem- 
lock for fome days. 
I then ordered her an infufion of the cortex Pe- 
ruvianus an ounce, in powder, to a quart of fpring 
water, to let it Hand three or four days, Shaking it 
every day; and thfen that (lie diould take three 
fpoonfuls, twice in a day ; that die fhould repeat 
the hemlock in the lame quantity die took at the 
fird ; that fhe fhould not again exceed that quan - 
tity on any account ; and that die diould continue 
the lime-water and the millepedes. 
About the latter end of December fhe had a re- 
gular appearance of her menfes, but very moderate; 
her pains were very much abated, and the fchirrus 
much lefs, though die often complained of a fwim- 
niing in her head, and a redlednefs in the night. 
From this time, viz. the end of December, die 
continued mending in all refpedts fo much, that 
I heard nothing of her ’till March 1763; when 
Mrs. Savage (the lady under whofe infpedtion die 
took the hemlock) came to London, and told me, 
that Ann James was furprizingly recovered ; that 
her cancer was much ledened, that die could 
ufe her arms, work for herfelf and family, and that 
her pains were fo much abated, that fhe was quite 
happy. 
In September lad I was at Boughton, faw her, 
and examined her breads : the fchirrus in her left 
bread was not half fo big as when I faw it before.; 
the ramifications were all gone, and it did not at 
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