She's a licensed prosthetist, meaning, she fits prosthetic limbs to people after an amputation.

[…] Haste and Sickness made me rather venture on your good Nature, for the Pardon of a venial Fault, than put myself to the trouble of altering the Order of these Papers, and substituting new Transitions and Connections, in the room of those, with which I formerly made up the Chasms and Incoherency of the Tract, you now receive.

She had only, therefore, to save herself an actual ejectment, by quitting a house in which she was exposed to such a disgrace.

To this extenuated spectre, perhaps, a crumb is not thrown once a year, but when ahungered and athirst to famine—when all humanity has forgotten the dying tenant of a decaying house—Divine Mercy remembers the mourner […]