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month of June, A. D. 1765, in the county of Kent. His father 
was a respectable yeoman in Romney Marsh, and was what is 
there called one of the Lords of the Marsh, there being a peculiar 
court and laws in that district. 
“ This son, Edward, was placed as an apprentice to Mr. Kite, 
a surgeon, of Gravesend, and with him remained a period of seven 
years. Mr. Kite was an intelligent man, and had devoted much 
attention to the subject of asphyxia, both by reading and experi- 
ment; and Mr. Coleman thus imbibed an inclination to pursue this 
study, and make it the subject of farther experiment. 
“ In the year 1789 Mr. Coleman came to London. He was 
placed under the guidance of Mr. Cline, and lived in his family 
with Mr. Astley Cooper; with Mr. Taylor, who married Lady 
Lucy Stanhope, and was made Comptroller of the Customs by Mr. 
Pitt ; and with Dr. Clarke, who, afterwards imbibing habits of in- 
temperance, died almost destitute. 
“ Mr. Coleman had no sooner come to Mr. Cline’s than he again 
engaged himself in studying the subject of asphyxia; and made 
so many experiments upon cats and dogs, and killed such numbers 
of these animals, that a friend of his once declared he had blocked 
up Houndsditch. These investigations led to the composition of 
an Essay on Suspended Animation, which gained for him the 
medal of the Humane Society. He also subsequently published 
a book upon the same subject, which procured for him a high 
reputation. 
“Mr. Coleman and Mr. Astley Cooper attended John Hunter’s 
lectures, walking together up to Leicester-square every evening 
of their delivery, and relieving the tediousness of so long a journey 
by discussing Mr. Hunter’s opinions. Mr. Coleman had at this 
time a singular disease — a sympathy between the stomach and 
skin, which manifested itself by his ejecting the contents of his 
stomach whenever he exposed himself to cold air after dinner* 
No other effect followed. 
“ In the year 1791, Mr. Coleman quitted Mr. Cline’s house ; 
but he always kept up a social intercourse with his old master 
and his family, for all of whom he never failed to express his 
respect and affectionate regard. 
“ He now removed to Fenn-court, Fenchurch-street, and began 
