J34 ^'^ ^--^ ComhujTvjfi of the Human BoJj, 



fradifted them. It was atteded alfo by Scipio Mafici. t 

 Tejrned cottjmporary of Bianchini, who was far from bcino: 

 credulous ; and, in the laft place, this furprifing fact v:ii< 

 confirmed to the Royal Society of London b\^ Paul Rolli. 

 The Annual Regifter mentions alfo two other fatls of the 

 fatne kind which occurred in England, one at Southampton 

 and the other at Coventry. 



' An inftance of the like kind is prefen ed in the fame 

 work * in a letter of Mr. Wilnier, furgeon : — " Marr Clues, 

 aged 50, was much addifted to intoxication. Her propenfity 

 to this vice had increafed after the death of her hufband, 

 •which happened a year and a half before. For about a year, 

 fcarcely a dav had pafled in the courfe of which flie did not 

 drink at lealt lialf a pint of rum or anifeed-water. Her 

 health gradually declined, and about the beginning- of Fe- 

 briiarj' Ihe was attacked by the jaundice and confined to her 

 feed. Though (he was incapable of much adtion, and not 

 in a condition to work, fhe ftill continued her old habit of 

 drinking every day and fmoking a pipe of tobacco. The 

 bed in which (lie lay flood parallel to the chimney of the 

 apartment, and at the difiance from it of about three feet. 

 On Saturday morning, the ift of March, fhe fell on the 

 floor; and her extreme weaknefs having prevented her from 

 getting up, file remained in that fiate till fome one entered 

 and put her to bed. The following night fhe wiflied to b* 

 left alone. A woman quitted her at half after eleven, and, 

 according to cultom, fluit the door and locked it. She had 

 put on the fire two large pieces of coal, and placed a light in 

 a candlefl;ick on a chair at the head of her bed. At half 

 after five in the morning a fiuoke was fcen ifTuing through 

 the window, and the door being fpeedily broke open, fonie 

 iBames which were in the room were foon extinguiflied. Be- 

 tween the bed and the chimney were found the remains of 

 the unfortunate Clues : one leg and a thigh were flill entire; 

 but there remained nothing of the fkiu, the mufcles, and 

 the vifcera. The bones of the cranium, the broalt, the 

 fpmc, and the upper extremities, were entirely calcined, and 

 oovered with a whitifh etflorefcence. The people were much 



• Annual Regifter for 1773; p- 78. 



flirprifcd 



