Some account of Lord Boringdon's accident, on 21st July, 1817, and its consequences.

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[1818]
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Credit: Some account of Lord Boringdon's accident, on 21st July, 1817, and its consequences. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    day he came down stairs) to the 1st of November, he kept his bed. On the 13th, he had, for the space of ten minutes, a very considerable pain in his side and body. He twice used these words—“ This pain is shocking.”—The pain soon left him. It appears to have been the greatest he felt during his illness. From the 14th to the 19th, there was no mate- rial change in his state, except a diminution of appetite. From the 19th to the 22nd, he got weaker. In the night he usually slept a good deal though the cough was frequently too powerful for the opium given him to allay it. On the 20th, he was in a state of very great excitement, and very great enjoyment: he had for a long time together, his brother and his sister, besides Mr. Hodgkin (his tutor, to whom he was much attached) and other persons. He made his little sister repeat his favourite verses of “ Little Jenny Wren, &c.” and also “ the Little Busy Bee,” at the recital of the last he cried with delight. His passionate affection for his sister she was rarely excited to tears by any little distresses other own, her heart was ever ready to melt for those of others. Through her last illness she never failed to thank every body about her in the most touching manner, for every little thing which was done for her; and her patience, gentleness, and reasonableness, during that period, as well as at all others when she suffered from indisposition, were truly affecting. On the' 31st of March, her remains arrived at Saltram, and on the 3rd of April, were deposited with those of her brother, in the vault at the church of Plympton St. Mary. c 2