Sudden death.

  • Granville, A. B. (Augustus Bozzi), 1783-1872.
Date:
1854
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sudden death. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    On the Sunday preceding the last-men- tioned decease, the following impressive scene was taking place not very far from the last- mentioned city. A stout and healthy middle- aged yeoman was crossing Ovington Park, on his way to evening church, which he never reached. Returning from divine service the park-keepers found him seated with his back to a tree, his hat on, his umbrella under his arm : Dead !|lwith no appearance of convul- sion or previous struggle. The 29th of December Louis Napoleon decreed that there should be an imperial com- mission to superintend the construction of the great edifice, pour Texposition universelle des produits de Tagriculture, de Tindustrie, et des beaux arts, presided over by the Heir presumptive to the throne. Yisconti, the eminent architect, son of the late still more eminent antiquarian, received, on that day, his nomination as a member of that commis- sion. He attended its first meeting on the