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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    aliis scriptoribus confirmatur ; viz. exemplum Grace Pett, a Fisherwoman, de Ipswich, quod anno 1744 accidit; fumum Nicotianse Tabaci inhalare solebat, et non longe antea, multum liquoris spirituosi potaverat. Vestimenta ejus xylina fuerunt.* * « A letter fi-om Auriol, in the department of Var, states, that during the night, from the 23d to the 24th of Octo- ber, an empyreumatic odour, like that of burnt hom, was « smelt in the neighbourhood of the dwelling-house of Ma- rie Drignan, widow of Ferand. The next day, that wo- man, who inhabited the second floor, was found almost entirely burnt, and what remained of her corpse was still « burning. No sign of her having caught fire could be per- ceived ; no complaint had been heard ; a candlestick only <' was fouud near the chair on which she was probably sit- ting, and which was also half-consuraed. This woman had been for a long time addicted to spirituous liquors; and the Hydrogen, with which her body was impregnated, and which exhaled from all her pores, having come into contact with the flame of the candle, the combustion would « take place immediately. Excess in drinkiug spirituous liquors is not the only cause of human combustion, There is reason to believe that the anatomical composition of in- dividuals who are its victims, contains a superabimdance of Phosphorus.—From a Translation of a Paris Paper.