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104 KIRBY'S WONbERFtL MUSfiUM.
hand to assist him, the tide came in and he was next morn-
ing found drowned.
Nat* Reg., June 30, 1811.
ACCOUNT OF CHARLES DOMERY, THE GREAT EA'tER.
In a letter from Dr. Johnston of Somerset fflace, to Dr. Blane.
Somerset Place, October 28, 1799.
MY DEAR SIR,
Having in August and September last been engaged in a
tour of public duty, for the purpose of selecting from among
the prisoners of war such men as, from their infirmities, were
fit objects for being released, without equivalent, I heard
upon my arrival at Liverpool, an account of one of these
prisoners being endowed with an appetite and digestion, so
far beyond any thing that ever occurred to me, either in my
observation, reading, or by report, that I was desirous of as-
certaining the particulars of it by ocular proof, or undenia-
ble testimony. Dr. Cochrane, fellow of the College of
Physicians at Edinburgh, and our medical agent at Liver-
pool, is fortunately a gentleman upon whose fidelity and ac-
curacy I could perfectly depend; and I requested him to in-
stitute an enquiry upon this subject during my stay at that
place. I inclose you an attested copy of the result of this;
and as it may probably appear to you, as it does to me, a do-
cument containing facts extremely interesting, both in a na-
tural and medical view, I will beg you to procure its insertion
in some respectable periodical work.
Some farther points of enquiry concerning this extraordi-
nary person having occurred to me since my arrival in town,
I sent them in the form of queries to Dr. Cochrane, who
has obligingly returned satisfactory answers. These I send
along with the above-mentioned attested statement, to which
hand to assist him, the tide came in and he was next morn-
ing found drowned.
Nat* Reg., June 30, 1811.
ACCOUNT OF CHARLES DOMERY, THE GREAT EA'tER.
In a letter from Dr. Johnston of Somerset fflace, to Dr. Blane.
Somerset Place, October 28, 1799.
MY DEAR SIR,
Having in August and September last been engaged in a
tour of public duty, for the purpose of selecting from among
the prisoners of war such men as, from their infirmities, were
fit objects for being released, without equivalent, I heard
upon my arrival at Liverpool, an account of one of these
prisoners being endowed with an appetite and digestion, so
far beyond any thing that ever occurred to me, either in my
observation, reading, or by report, that I was desirous of as-
certaining the particulars of it by ocular proof, or undenia-
ble testimony. Dr. Cochrane, fellow of the College of
Physicians at Edinburgh, and our medical agent at Liver-
pool, is fortunately a gentleman upon whose fidelity and ac-
curacy I could perfectly depend; and I requested him to in-
stitute an enquiry upon this subject during my stay at that
place. I inclose you an attested copy of the result of this;
and as it may probably appear to you, as it does to me, a do-
cument containing facts extremely interesting, both in a na-
tural and medical view, I will beg you to procure its insertion
in some respectable periodical work.
Some farther points of enquiry concerning this extraordi-
nary person having occurred to me since my arrival in town,
I sent them in the form of queries to Dr. Cochrane, who
has obligingly returned satisfactory answers. These I send
along with the above-mentioned attested statement, to which