Richard Watkins, Newes from the Dead — To the Physitians (1651)
“ Were to mistrust experience, and still Think Death a Gyant, whose vast gripe could span And squeez to nought both memory and man. Yee are not mortall, nor need feare to dye: To conquer Death is Immortality. ”
Richard Watkins, Newes from the Dead — Newes from the Dead (1651)
“ Tuesday the 17 in the morning they found her pulse slow, but very unequall: her tongue not very dry nor rough: the night before she slept well; in the morning she arose, but her head was so light that she could hardly stand upright: she now complained of paine beneath the pit of her stomack: she complained also of a deadnesse in the tipp of her tongue, thinking she had bitten it in the time of her suffering: she call'd this day for some bread, which she did eate, being first toasted and moistned in beare. ”
Richard Watkins, Newes from the Dead — Newes from the Dead (1651)
“ At night when they visited her againe, the paine of her neck and throat was decreased: the spots of setled bloud about her cheek and neck lessened, but the deadnesse of her tongue still remained. That night she slept 6 or7 houres: and on the 18 in the morning had no feaver; her pulse much amended; all Symptomes lessened; the paines in her breast seemed to descend into the region of the belly, being (as 'twas conceived) not in the bowells, but only in the musculous outward parts. ”
