Some reflections on the causes and circumstances, that may retard or prevent the putrefaction of dead bodies. Occasioned by an account of a body found entire and imputrid at Staverton in Devonshire, eighty one years after its interment: in a letter to the Society of Navy Surgeons. With an attestation of the fact, and of the similar state of three bodies, discovered 14 years since in St. Martin's, Westminster, and interred there last century ... / [J. Kirkpatrick].

  • Kirkpatrick, J. (James), approximately 1696-1770
Date:
1751
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Credit: Some reflections on the causes and circumstances, that may retard or prevent the putrefaction of dead bodies. Occasioned by an account of a body found entire and imputrid at Staverton in Devonshire, eighty one years after its interment: in a letter to the Society of Navy Surgeons. With an attestation of the fact, and of the similar state of three bodies, discovered 14 years since in St. Martin's, Westminster, and interred there last century ... / [J. Kirkpatrick]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    To the Members of the Society of Sur¬ geons belonging to his Majefly s Gentlemen, S you were pleafed, in the London Evening Poft, to Signify your Defire of being informed of any extraordinary Thing in’Nature, I believe the following Ac- j count will not be difagreable. * * t • ' * f In the Beginning of February laft, a Vault was opened in the Church of S tavert ofit about three Miles from Totnefs, in the Coun¬ ty of Devon, being the Burying-place of the antient Family of the Worths. In this was found a Angle wooden Coffin, which being opened out of Curiofity, difcovered the Body of a Man entire and incorrupt. His Flefh folid and not hard, his Joints flexible, as if juft dead; which appeared in moving his Shoulder and Elbow Joints, and every Joint of his Fingers. His Fibres retain their natural Elafticity, and likewife his Flefh , all which appeared by drawing out the Skin upon his Throat, and by making Impreffions with our Fin-