The Sun.
London, England, 1825-11-24 00:00:00

CANCER.

Cory a Letter from the Rev. Dr-BATTiniAN to the Rev. Mr.
REYNOLDS, describing an extraordinary Cure performed by
the ure of Clivers, otherwise Goose Grass.

64 All -01 d women in my parish had what is
called a bleeding cancer, continuing to eat away
the flesh for several years—and it was supposed
by a medical person who attended her, that she
would end her miseries in less than a fortnight,
when I recommended her to use the divers or
goose grass, with the properties of which I was
acquainted, and the manner she used them is as
follows :—She took a mercurial purge—was to
eat no salt meats ; to use thin diet, and twice
a-day, between meals, to drink a quarter of a
pint of the juice of divers, which she got by
pounding and squeezing them—at the same time
to take some of the juice, boil and mix it witk
hog's lard, so as to make a green ointment, and
constantly apply it to the wound, laying the
bruised slivers over it, to remove it as often as it
is dried, and to take particular care to keep the
wound clean. This was done for six months,
partly by compulsion, for the benefit was so gra-
dual I could scarcely persuade the woman &he
was the better of it, and began to have some
doubts, only that her being alive, and the smell
abating, were convincing proofs that a cure in
time might be effected. I therefore insisted on
her continuing the practice as above, and it being
a mild winter, there was divers to be found under
warm hedges. The course was still continued,
and three months after the wound was perfectly
healed. I afterwards advised her to take it
every spring to prevent a return of the com-
plaint."

Mrs. Gregory's receipt for the ointment is, to
take a pound of hog's lard without spice or salt,
and as much divers as the hog's lard will mois-
ten ; boil it over a slow fire, stirring it till it
looks brown ; then strain it through a cloth, and
when cold make the ointment of the water that
appears at the bottom—the bruised leaves being
applied often to stay the abundance of blood
issuing from the' wound. Observe all the direc-
tions in Dr. Bateman's letter—to keep the wound
very clean, to take physic, and drink the juice
of the leaf a week before the ointment is applied.
Laying the bruised leaves of slivers over the
wound, is thought to be very useful, though it is
apt to heat the part very much, and when it is
past bearing, it must be taken off and applied as
it can be borne.

N. should be observed there is another
weed very much like the diver in appearance,
but may easily be distinguished by observing the
diver feels rough and sticky, the weed that
resembles it is quite smooth. (Maidstone
Journal.)

ECLIPSE OF THE MOON.-TO-morrow there will
be an eclipse of the Moon, partly visible. The
Moon rises at three minutes past four o'clock,
and the eclipse will commence at 24 minutes past
three, and will terminate at 19 minutes past five
o'clock in the evening ; duration one hour andss
minutes digits eclipsed 21 on the Moon's south-
ern limb.

FUNERAL OF THE UNFORTUNATE SAMUEL
CROOK.-Yesterday afternoon, in conformity
with the dying wish of this ill-feted youth to the
Rev. Alt% B. ISAAC, his spiritual adviser, on the
night before his execution, his body was interred
hi the burial ground of the Gloucester chapel, in
the filds at Hackney. The funeral train consisted
of the unhappy parents of the deceased, and the
whole of his brothers and sisters, six in number,
followed by a vast concourse of people, who all
seemed to lament his untimely end. The funeral
service was read by the Rev. Mr. Isaac, from the
40th chap. Isaiah, and the Ist and 9-d verse,,,
which had been selected by the unfortunate
youth ; and a tomb-stone to his memory is to be
erected on his grave.