In the issue of the Cambrian newspaper dated 6 May 1809, this story was printed.
"A respectable correspondent at Pontypool has furnished us with the following extraordinary occurrence. A young man, of the name of William Davies, who belongs to the Monmouthshire Western Local Militia Band, finding himself unwell, applied for medical assistance, but obtaining no relief went to Pontypool and was advised to drink some mineral water in the neighbourhood. Having done so, he soon afterwards vomited a creature similar to a lizard, in length about seven inches from head to tail, with eyes, two rows of teeth, six up and six down and four claws or feet exactly like those of the lizard. Davies says he was subject to very sudden startings from the gnawing of the creature but he is now fast recovering. There is no doubt of his getting quite well. The virtues of the water above alluded to not being generally known, we think the faculty cannot too early direct their attention to it."
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