Cases and remarks in surgery : to which is subjoined, an appendix, containing the method of curing the bronchocele in Coventry / by B. Wilmer.

  • Wilmer, Bradford.
Date:
1779
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Credit: Cases and remarks in surgery : to which is subjoined, an appendix, containing the method of curing the bronchocele in Coventry / by B. Wilmer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    An A C C O U NT of a WOMAN, accidentally butnt to death at Coventry^ In a Letter to Mr. William Sharp- From the Philofophical Tranfaftiona. Sir, I ' H E following cafe, which has lately engaged the attention of every one in this part of the world, appears fo very extraordinary, that I was determined to give you a minute account of its circum- ftances j which will be the more agree¬ able to you, as you may depend upon the truth of every thing I ihall relate to you concerning it. Mary Clues, of Gosfordrftreet in this city, aged fifty-two years, had an in- diiferent charadler, and was much addiaed to drinking. Since the death of her huf- band, which happened about a year and a, half fince, her propenfity to this vice {n- creafed to fuch a degree, that, I have been informed by feveral of her neighbours, file has drank the quantity of four half pints ^SS ‘ «•