| Anonymous 178 | A midwife from the town of Honiton in the county of Devon, who has "skill in Sores and Wounds," and is called on to treat Elizabeth Brooker (who experiences extreme pain in her leg). She "applied her rare Plaister of Venice-Turpentine all that Night, and many other things the next Day, but [Brooker's pain] was still the same."(67-68) | Now, the next Day being the Lord's Day, while her Mistress and the Family were at Dinner, and Elizabeth Brooker waiting at the Table, on a sudden the Maid gave a very great Cry, and told them, she had a Pin thrust into her Thigh, which few of the Family did believe, knowing
there was no Person in the Room beside her self, and the Family, who all sate at Meat, she only standing to attend them. Her Mistress arose from Table, and Mr. Samuel Hieron's Wife, (who was then living.) She was forced to go to Bed; they sent for a Midwife of the Town, who had skill in Sores and Wounds: She saw there had been some small Hurt in the Skin, but the Pin was out of sight; and feeling so as to understand what it was, or exactly where, the Midwife applied her rare Plaister of Venice-Turpentine all that Night, and many other things the next Day, but the Pain was still the same.() |