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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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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    [ ^ ] extent, and I took off the remaining toe. About this time fhe was feized with unufual fleepinefs, which gave her attendants no fmall alarm; fhe flept almoft conftantly night and day, for three or four days, and they were fcarcely able to keep her avrake to take food, her pulfe was very weak and low, and greater figns of debility were manifeft at this period than there had been for fome weeks paft, but fhe feemed to be relieved by the ufe of warm and camphorated medicines; her appetite was but very fmall, and fhe was frequently trou¬ bled with pain in her body from coftivenefs and fuppreffion of urine. * April 17th.—The fores were now free from Houghs, and became evidently lefs every day; her appetite is tolerably good, and her general health has begun to amend; but with all thefe circum- ftances in her favour, fhe feels herfelf to be very uncomfortable, and in fadt her profpedt is moH miferable. True it is that her life is faved; but the mutilated Hate in which fhe is left, without even a chance of ever being able to attend to the duties of her family, is almoft worfe than death itfelf; for from the expofureof the os calcis in all probability it will not be till after fome months that the bot¬ toms of her feet can be covered with new Ikin;