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XXIX. An Account of the Sequel of the 
Cafe of Anne James, who had taken the 
Green Hemlock : In a Getter to the Rev* 
Thomas Birch, Secretary to the Royal 
Society^ fro?n Mr, Jofiah Colebrooke, 
F, R, S. 
Rev. Sir, 
Read Nov. 7, A S I did myfelf the honour, in De- 
*765- cember, 1763*, to communicate 
to the Royal Society, the good fuccefs which had 
attended taking green hemlock, in the cancerous 
cafe of Ann James (who had at that time taken it 
for more than a year), I think myfelf under an in- 
dilpenfable obligation to give the fequel of that hifto- 
ry, by which it will appear, that the taking hemlock , 
(tho’ attended with fuch advantageous circumftances, 
and which continued for near two years) proved only 
palliative. 
In July, 1764, I was informed, that the fchirrus 
in the right brealf (which was very fmall when fhc 
began to take hemlock) was encreafed, and extended 
itfelf under the axilla, looked livid, oofed a little, 
and was painful. I defred a little blood might be 
* See Philofoph. Tranfa£l. vol. LIII. p. 34^* 
taken 
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