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'LX1X. An Account of the Cafe of a young 
Man fupifed by the Smoke of Sea-coal \ by 
Dr. Frewen, of SufTex. 
Read Jan. 28, TT Tllliam Colebrook, a lad of feven- 
\\ teen years of age, was left alone 
to take care of his mailer’s veffel in Rye harbour, the 
4th of June 1761 j and fhutting up all clofe, at nine 
o’clock in the evening, he laid himlelf down to deep 
in a fmall cabbin, where there had been a fea-coal 
fire, which was not properly extinguifhed, and, the 
chimney-place being flopped, it loon grew full of 
fmoke ; the effedl of which, when the people came 
on board next morning, proved to have been fo 
powerful, as to render him totally deprived of all the 
lenfible motions of the body, excepting thofe of the 
heart and lungs. The caufe of this flupor being pre- 
lently fulpedted, he was brought out upon the deck, 
in hopes the frefh air would prove of fervice; but 
neither that, nor bleeding, bliflering, or any other 
applications they made ufe of, affifled him in the 
lead, under this torpid fituation. Being brought 
home to his mailer’s houfe about noon, I vilited him, 
and found him in the fame foporous, apople&ic date, 
with a feeble pulfe, refpiration laboured and difficult, 
a rattling in his throat, and utterly void of all fenfa- 
tion. He appeared much like one I had feen, who 
had taken an over-dofe of opium, and died of it. 
I ftrongly recommended the plunging this patient 
into a cold bath 5 which being complied with, and 
done as expeditioufly as it could be, was attended 
with 
