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Voi, Ik p. 2 1 1. n. 1 1 8. one may fee fuch another 
Accident related in thefe very Words. 
<c A poor Woman at Tar is ufed to drink Spirit 
“ of Wine plentifully for the Space of three Years, 
a fo as to take nothing elfe. Her Body contracted 
4C fuch a combuftible Difpofition, that one Night (he, 
lying down on a Straw-Couch, was all burned to 
Cf Allies and Smoke, except the Scull, and the Extre- 
l l mities of her Fingers.’" 
John Henry Cohaufen relates this Fad in a Book 
printed at Amflerdam 17 17 > intituled. Lumen novum 
Thofphoris accenfums and in the firft Part, p. 92. 
relates alfo, cc That a Tolifo Gentleman, in the Time 
“ of the Queen Bona Sforza , having drank two 
“ Difhes of a Liquor called Brandy -Wine, vomited 
“ Flames, and was burnt by them.” 
REMARKS. 
C}UCH an E fifed was not produced by the Light of 
^ the Oil-Lamp, or of any Candles becaufe common 
Fire, even in a Pile, does not confume a Body to 
fuch a Degree ; and would have belides fpread itfelf 
to the Goods of the Chamber, more combuftible 
than a human Body. It feems alfo, that it was not 
what is commonly taken for a Fulmen } for there 
was not left in the Place any fulphureous and nitrous 
Smell : There did not appear any blackifh Tracks 
on the Walls; all Signs of the Fulmina, as they have 
been remarked by the exadeft Obferver of Pheno- 
mena, the celebrated Mr. Boyle. But if it was not 
a real Fulmen, it was certainly of fuch a Nature. 
Some thought, that in the Ground under the Room 
might have been a Mine of Sulphur : Which granted 5 
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