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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    [ '3* ] feet I now difeovered to be in a date of complete mortification, which unhappy circumdance was occadoned by their being frodbitteiv before fhe was covered with fnow. Her ancles were cold and benumbed, and the integuments felt puffy; nor could I, for this reafon, determine precifely the extent of the mortidcation. I ordered that her feet might be wrapped up in linen cloths wetted with brandy, and that this application fhould be frequently renewed; her lips and tongue, I found, had differed very much from the cold, and were very fore. I found alfo, that though fhe had made water dnee fhe returned home, fhe had experienced no other evacuation. Medicines were now adminiftered to keep off the* fever; and in the evening fhe took fome opium. I gave a drid charge for her being kept quiet, and requefted that fhe might be fed only with very weak broth. Tuefday the 12th.—Great numbers of people had been and were then pouring into the houfe to vidt and talk with her; which circumftance adding much to the natural effeds of returning warmth in her habit, produced fo violent a fever that I began to have but little hopes of her re¬ covery;—her pulfe was now quick and full; her