An account of the providential preservation of Eliz. Woodcock : who survived a confinement under the snow, of nearly eight days and nights, in the month of February 1799 ... / by Thomas Verney Okes.

  • Okes, Thomas Verney
Date:
[1799?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An account of the providential preservation of Eliz. Woodcock : who survived a confinement under the snow, of nearly eight days and nights, in the month of February 1799 ... / by Thomas Verney Okes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    „ i foon he defpaired of her life. If the lofs of a per- fon, fimilar to that which we have now related* fhould happen within the knowledge of any into whofe hands this narrative may fall, he will pur- fue a courfe of enquiry confiderably different from that obferved in this cafe. He will particularly feek for the largeft accumulations of fnow in the vicinity of the loft perfon’s ufual place of reil- dence, and diredl his examination, with the moft careful accuracy, to any aperture which may be difcerned in any part of them: on no account forgetting to fcrutinize, with increafed diligence, fuch maffes as he finds colle&ed about trees, hedges, or bufhes. Had that been thought of in the prefent inftance, it is extremely probable that this diftreffed female might have been fpared many hours, nay days, of her folitary and wretched feclufion, and have been reffored to her family with far lefs perfonal injury than fhe has now unhappily fuftained. In cafe fine had been found in a ftate of infenlibility, there was hill room to hope, that the vital fpark, though it might exhibit no fymptoms of its exiflence, was not yet irre¬ coverably extinguifhed. It might have been truly faid, Forfan fcintillula latet.” It is a melancholy confederation, but it will Scarcely admit of a doubt, that numbers of perfons
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