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XXXIV. An Account of a Woman acci- 
dentally burnt to death at Coventry. By 
B. Wilmer, Surgeon , at Coventry. In 
a Letter to Mr, William Sharpe. 
S I R, 
Redde, Mar. 2o,rr^ H E following cafe, which has 
1774 ’ lately engaged the attention of 
every one in this part of the world, appears to me 
fo very extraordinary, that I was determined to give 
you a minute account of its circumflances ; which 
will be the more agreeable to you, as you may de- 
pend upon the truth of every thing that I fhall relate 
to you, concerning it. 
mary clues, of Gosford ftreet, in this city, 
aged 52 years, was of an indifferent charafter, and 
much addifted to drinking. Since the death of her 
hufband, which happened about a year and a half 
ago, her propen fity to this vice increafed to luch a 
degree, that, as I have been informed by feveral of 
her neighbours, fhe has drank the quantity of four 
half pints of rum, undiluted with any other liquor, in 
a day. This practice was fo familiar to her, that fcarce 
a day has paffed this laft twelve-month, but fhe 
has fwallowed from half a pint to a quart of rum 
or anifeed-water. Her health gradually declined ; 
and. 
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