Richard Watkins

Name: Newes from the Dead — Newes from the Dead
Author: Richard Watkins

Newes from the Dead — Newes from the Dead (1651)

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“Newes from the Dead — Newes from the Dead”, published in 1651, is a work by Richard Watkins. It explores elements such as shee, deadnesse and cordiall.

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Richard Watkins, Newes from the Dead — Newes from the Dead (1651)

“ By this time, the care of the Physitians was well over. The paines in her breast and side when she drew in her breath, as also the inequality of her pulse (which caused a suspition of a contusion and extravasated bloud spilt on the Lungs) being fully ceased. The deadnesse of her tongue and sorenesse of her neck quite gone. ”

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Richard Watkins, Newes from the Dead — Newes from the Dead (1651)

“ As soon as they perceived any heat in her extream parts, they thought of letting her bloud: & no sooner was her arme bound for that purpose, but she suddenly bent it, as if it had been contracted by a fit of the Convulsion: the veine being opened, shee bled about five ounces, and that so freely that it could not easily be stopped. All this while her pulse was very low, but otherwise not much amisse. ”

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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. ”

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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. ”

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Richard Watkins, Newes from the Dead — Newes from the Dead (1651)

“ They perceiving some life in her, as well for humanity as their Professionsake, fell presently to act in order to her recovery. First, having caused her to be held up in the Coffin, they wrenched open her teeth, which were fast set,and powred into her mouth some hot and cordiall spirits; whereupen she rutled more then before, and seemed obscurely to cough: then they opened her hands (her fingers also being stifly bent) and ordered some to rub and chafe the extreme parts of her body, which they continued for about a quarter of an houre ”

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Richard Watkins, Newes from the Dead — Newes from the Dead (1651)

“ At length, when every one thought she was dead, the body being taken downe, and put into a Coffin, was carried thence into a private house, where some Physitians had appointed to make a Dissection. The Coffin being opened, she was observed to breath, and in breathing (the passage of her throat being streightned) obscurely to ruttle: which being perceived by a lusty fellow that stood by, he (thinking to doe an act of charity in ridding her out of the small reliques of a painfull life) stamped severall times on her breast & stomack with all the force he could. ”

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Richard Watkins, Newes from the Dead — Newes from the Dead (1651)

“ As we often see it fares with men that are buzz'd in the head with drink, or transported with madnesse, who, though they seem sensible enough of every present object that moves them, yet after they recover can own but little of what they did or said before. ”

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Richard Watkins, Newes from the Dead — Newes from the Dead (1651)

“ Whilst the Physicians were thus busie in recovering her to life, the Undersheriffe was solliciting the Governour and the rest of the Justices of Peace for the obtaining her Reprieve, that in case she should for that present be recovered fully to life, shee might not be had backe again to Execution. ”

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Richard Watkins, Newes from the Dead — Newes from the Dead (1651)

“ The Physitians fearing least her face might swell more & more, and a Feaver come upon her, by reason of the former suffocation, took from her right arme about nine ounces more of blood, and then ordered her a Julep, and other cordiall things co be administred upon occasion, and so left her for that night: and about two houres after she began to speake many words intelligible. ”

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