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XVII. An Account of the Dtfeafe^ called 
Ergot, in French, from its fuppofed Caufe^ 
viz. vitiated Rye, In a Letter from 
Dr. Tiflbt, of Laufanne, to George Baker, 
M. D. F. R. S. Cotmnunicated in a Let- 
ter from Dr. Baker to the Rev. Thomas 
Birch, D. D. Sec. R. 
Reverend Sir, 
I N the month of April, 1762, my late moft amia- 
ble and very ingenious friend, Dr. Wolladon,. 
preiented to the Royal Society the hiftory of an ex- 
traordinary cafe of a mortification of limbs in a poor 
family at Wattifliam, about fixteen miles from Bury, 
in Suffolk, where Dr. Wollaflon at that time refided. 
About the fame time the Rev. Mr. Bones, then mi- 
nifter of the parifli of Wattifliam (whofe humanity 
led him to iliew a particular attention to the fuffer- 
ings of that unhappy family) tranfmitted to me every 
circumflance, which he could obferve or colle6f, re- 
lating to the difeafe. The letters, which I received 
on this fubjec^, from Mr. Bones, were communT- 
cated to the Society ; and both accounts were pub- 
lifhed in the fecond part of the fiifty-fecond volume of 
the I’hilofophical Tranfad'ions for the year 1762. 
Some time in the lafl winter, as I was perufing a 
work, intitled, Avis an Pcuple pir J'a Jiinte par M. 
