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LI V. An Account of the Cafe of a Man who 
died of theEjfeBs of the Fire at Eddy-ftone 
Light-houfe. By Mr, Edward Spry, Sur- 
geon at Plymouth. 
Read Fdb. thurfday the fourth of Decem- 
I/55 ‘ her, 175?, at three in the after- 
noon, Henry Hall, of Eaft-ftone-houfe, near Ply- 
mouth. aged 94, years, of a good constitution, and 
extremely adtive for one of that age, being one of 
the three unfortunate men, who fuffered by the fire 
of the light-houfe at Eddy-fione, nine miles from 
Plymouth, having been greatly hurt by that acci- 
dent, with much difficulty returned to his own 
houfe. I being lent for to his affiftance found him 
in his bed, complaining of extreme pains all over 
his body ; efpecially in his left fide, below the Short 
ribs, in the breaft, mouth and throat. He faid 
likewife, as well as he could, with a hoarfe voice, 
Scarce to be heard, that melted lead had run down 
his throat into his body. 
Having taken the proper care of his right leg, 
which was much bruifed and cut on the tibia, I 
examined his body, and found it all cover’d with 
livid fpots and blisters ; and the left fide of the 
head and face, with the eye, extremely burnt; 
which having waSbed with linnen dipt in an emol- 
lient fomentation, and having applied things ufed in 
cafes of burning, I then infpedled his throat, the 
root of his tongue, and the parts contiguous, as the 
uvula, tonfils, &c. which were greatly fcorched by 
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