Diary of Ralph Josselin (Private Collection)

10.2.1657 (Tuesday 10 February 1657)

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10: was with one Mole in our town who pricking his thumb with a thistle, and picking it out with a pin, it swelled, feared it would gangrene to the danger of his life, this day there was more hope in him, but he is very sick with it