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SUSPENDED ANIMATION. 161
their hands and faces, and yielded them every day two
pounds of milk, on which account they afterwards bore the
poor creature a great affection. During all this time, hun-
ger gave them but little uneasiness, except for the first five
or six days. The greatest inconvenience which they suffered
arose from the extreme coldness of the melted snow water
that fell on them, from the stench of the dead ass, goats,
fowls, &c. and from lice; but, above all, from the very un-
easy posture to which they were confined, the manger where
they sat squatting against the wall being no more than three
feet four inches wide. After the first two or three days they
had no evacuation by stool; the melted snow water and milk
were discharged by urine. The mother said she had never
slept, but the sister and daughter declared they slept as
usual.
These sufferers were relieved by the munificence of the
king of Sardinia, their sovereign, and several donations from
other hands, which enabled them to rebuild their house, and
set their other affairs to rights. In April 1757, they all en-
joyed perfect health, except Mary Anne, who still laboured
under dimness of sight, occasioned by her being too hastily
exposed to the light. The others soon returned to their usual
labours, and continued to lead the same life as they did
before their misfortune.
REMARKABLE CASE OF SUSPENDED ANIMATION,
FOR SEVENTEEN DAYS.
A most extraordinary case of suspended animation occur-
red in 1808, in the person of Mary Anning, a girl between
ten and eleven years of age, residing at Burton Bradstock, in
the county of Dorset. She had been weakly and unwell
from the beginning of April, in the above-mentioned year,
when at the latter end of May and beginning of June, she
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their hands and faces, and yielded them every day two
pounds of milk, on which account they afterwards bore the
poor creature a great affection. During all this time, hun-
ger gave them but little uneasiness, except for the first five
or six days. The greatest inconvenience which they suffered
arose from the extreme coldness of the melted snow water
that fell on them, from the stench of the dead ass, goats,
fowls, &c. and from lice; but, above all, from the very un-
easy posture to which they were confined, the manger where
they sat squatting against the wall being no more than three
feet four inches wide. After the first two or three days they
had no evacuation by stool; the melted snow water and milk
were discharged by urine. The mother said she had never
slept, but the sister and daughter declared they slept as
usual.
These sufferers were relieved by the munificence of the
king of Sardinia, their sovereign, and several donations from
other hands, which enabled them to rebuild their house, and
set their other affairs to rights. In April 1757, they all en-
joyed perfect health, except Mary Anne, who still laboured
under dimness of sight, occasioned by her being too hastily
exposed to the light. The others soon returned to their usual
labours, and continued to lead the same life as they did
before their misfortune.
REMARKABLE CASE OF SUSPENDED ANIMATION,
FOR SEVENTEEN DAYS.
A most extraordinary case of suspended animation occur-
red in 1808, in the person of Mary Anning, a girl between
ten and eleven years of age, residing at Burton Bradstock, in
the county of Dorset. She had been weakly and unwell
from the beginning of April, in the above-mentioned year,
when at the latter end of May and beginning of June, she
VOL. IV, Y