An essay, medical, philosophical, and chemical, on drunkenness, and its effects on the human body / by Thomas Trotter, M.D.

  • Trotter, Thomas, 1760-1832.
Date:
1804
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Credit: An essay, medical, philosophical, and chemical, on drunkenness, and its effects on the human body / by Thomas Trotter, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    daughters had returned from GlbraltaF. There was no fire in the grate, and the candle had burnt entirely out in the focket of the candleflick, which was clofe to her. Befides^ there were found near rji|tif< con fumed body, the clothes of a child and a paper fcreen, which had luftained no injury by the fire. The drefs of thi$ woman confided of a cotton gown.'' Le Gat, in a memoir on fpontaneous burn- ing, mentions feveral other inftances of com- buftion of the human body. Having,'' fays he, fpent feveral months at Rheims in the years 1724 and 1725, I lodged at the houfe of Sieur Millet, whofe wife got intoxicated every day. The domeftic econoniy of the family was managed by a pretty young girl, which I rauft not omit to remark, in order that all the circumdances which accompanied the fa£t I am about to relate, mav be better Tunderftood. This woman was found con- fumed on the 20th of February 1725, at the diftance of a foot and a half from the hearth in her kitchen. A part of the head only, yath A portion of the lower extremities and a few of the vertebrx, had efcaped combuftion. A foot