The World's Encyclopedia of Wonders and Curiosities

Everything a Victorian found astonishing, gathered into one enormous volume — burning springs and buried cities, freaks of storm and flood, the habits of bees and the manners of nations, filed under headings like “Curiosities Respecting Man.”

Combustion by Spirituous Liquors

5 pages in this part of Wonders and Curiosities.

Chap. VII

CURIOSITIES RESPECTING MAN. - (Continued.) Combustion of the Human Body, produced by the long immo derate Use of Spirituous Liquors. From…

Chap. VII: Bianchini

N The following extract of the memoir of Bianchini, is taken from the Annual Register for 1763: -The Countess Cornelia Bandi, of the town…

Chap. VII: Annual

Annual Register states, that the Countess Cesena was accustomed to bathe all her body in camphorated spirits of wine. Bianchini caused the…

Chap. VII: Clues

The An instance of the like kind is preserved in the same work, in a letter of Mr. Wilmer, surgeon:-" Mary Clues, aged 50, was much…

Chap. VII: Caen

The other instance mentioned in the Journal de Medicine, took place at Caen, and is thus related by Merille, a surgeon of that city, still…

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