Dissertatio medica inauguralis, quædam de ambustionibus et de combustione spontanea complectens : quam, annuente summo numine, ex auctoritate reverendi admodum viri, D. Georgii Baird, SS. T. P. Academiae Edinburgenae Praefecti : necnon amplissimi senatus academici consensu, et nobilissimæ facultatis medicæ decreto : pro gradu doctoratus, summisque in medicina honoribus ac privilegiis rite et legitime consequendis / eruditorum examini subjicit Georgius Kincaid Pitcairn, Scotus, Chirurgus Soc. Plin. Hist. Nat. Edin. Socius, &c.

  • Pitcairn, George Kincaid.
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MDCCCXXX [1830]
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Credit: Dissertatio medica inauguralis, quædam de ambustionibus et de combustione spontanea complectens : quam, annuente summo numine, ex auctoritate reverendi admodum viri, D. Georgii Baird, SS. T. P. Academiae Edinburgenae Praefecti : necnon amplissimi senatus academici consensu, et nobilissimæ facultatis medicæ decreto : pro gradu doctoratus, summisque in medicina honoribus ac privilegiis rite et legitime consequendis / eruditorum examini subjicit Georgius Kincaid Pitcairn, Scotus, Chirurgus Soc. Plin. Hist. Nat. Edin. Socius, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In rebus a societate de Copenhagen gestis, traditur exemplum feminae in hoc modo con- fectae ; nil pene nisi potum spirituosum per tres annos sumpserat. Nil nisi cranium, atque pha- langes digitorum distales, postero mane con- spectum est; reliquum corpus ejus in cinerem reductum est.* Inmense Julio, anno 1731,f Comitessa Cor- nelia Bandi de Cesena,annos sexagintaduo nata, eodem modo necata est; ante mortem ejus, som- nolentissima fuit, atque corpus in Spiritu Vini Camphorato, immergere solebat. Crura atque brachia solum intacta manserunt. Aliud exemplum est quoque optima auctori- tate ratum, a Bianchini traditum, namque ab * Vide Emp. of Arts and Sciences. Vol. i. p, 161, &c. f Hoc exemplum in Gentleraans Magazine, pro Mense Junio anno 1735 narratur, ubi causse vaporibus, particuHs pleosis atque salinis, phospboris, attritioni, &c. attribuuntur. Hic liber quoque dicit that the fire was kindled at once in the veins and minute vessels of the body—et prseterea, that a piece of paper may be drawn suddenly through the greatest flame without being set on fire.