An essay on the means of lessening the effects of fire on the human body / James Earle.

  • Earle, James, Sir, 1755-1817.
Date:
1803
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Credit: An essay on the means of lessening the effects of fire on the human body / James Earle. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    C is ) From repeated obfervation of fimilar cafes, I am confident that this wretched woman by the common modes of treatment would have continued to buffer great pain, and would have exifted but a few hours longer.—Perhaps the prolongation of life in fuch a fituation, and under luch circumflances is not greatly to be defired ; but to preferve it in all cafes, as far as lies in our power, >is our duty.—The reft we leave to Heaven. It was not my intention, as I have ob- ferved, to adduce any more inftances, but fince the preceding pages were printed, I have been favoured w ith an account of an accident which happened to a young lady, in Cur- zon Street, May Fair, written by herfelf, and which having permiflion to infert, I conceive it w'ould not be doing juftice to the fubjedt of this eflay if it were omitted ; it will therefore be related in her own impreflive words. Early