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time, file could then (by a flow whifper) make us 
fenfible of her wants j the extraneous Iwdy prefling, 
or in fome meafure obflrudling, the fine threads or 
ramifications of the par vagum, or eight pair of 
nerves that come out of the brain, and are difperfed 
on the larynx, and accompany the bronchi of 
the trachea or wind-pipe, even to their minutefl 
branches. She is now in a fair way of recovery, 
though weak, and afliifted with a dry cough, at- 
tended with an uncommon hollow found, as if her 
lungs were impaired. 
I would beg leave to obferve that the late baron 
SuafTo’s lady died by an accident fimilar to this, only 
different as to the extraneous body, viz. a cherry- 
ffone, which was the caufe of her death. And the fa- 
mous Greek poet Anacreon died by the kernel of a 
grape, in the fame manner. Another inftance hap- 
pened lately to an acquaintance, who was killed by a 
piece of chefnut, which went the wrong way, as we 
commonly exprefs it. And a gentleman, no long 
fince, had the misfortune of fwallowing a quarter of 
a guinea, in the fame manner, which killed him. 
Nor did I ever of hear any perfon’s recovering in a 
cafe of the like nature. 
William Martin. 
Shadvvell, Nov. 22, 1764, 
V. An 
