LAST ILLNESS OF JOSIAH WEDGWOOD. 



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The illness which ended in the death of Josiah Wedgwood 

 was a very painful one. Of this illness Mrs. Byerley, the 



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widow of his nephew and partner, Thomas Byerley, who was 

 at the time living near Etruria, wrote : 



"He was seized with a dreadful pain in his face and teeth. A 

 medical man was sent for, and as he had long been a friend of the 



