t)r. Penival on the Effects, iSc, 483 



A Narrative of the Sufferings of a Collier, 

 who 'Was confined more than feven DaySy without 

 Sustenance, and expofed to the Choke-damp, 

 in a Coal-Pjt not far from Manchester j 

 with Observations on the Effects of Famine ; 

 on the Means of alleviating them j and on the 

 Adlion of Foul Air on the Human Body. By 

 Thomas Percival^ M. D. F. R. S. a,nd S. A. 



JANUARY 6, 1785. 



IN compliance with the rcqueft of this Society, 

 I have obtained an authentic account of 

 the cafe of the unfortunate man, who was 

 fb long confined in a coal-pit at Hurft, near 

 Afhton-under-llne. My information, concern- 

 ing him, has been communicated by Mr. John 

 Lees, of Clarksfield, in that neighbourhood, a 

 Gentleman of probity and good fenfe, who him- 

 felf very humanely afTifted the poor fufFerer, 

 and collefled in perfon, or received from thofe 

 who attended him till his death, the intellitrence 

 with which he has favoured me. 



On Saturday the fourth of December, 1784, 

 about eight o'clock in the morning, Thomas 



I i 1 Travis, 



