The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-08-04 00:00:00

EIGHT YEARS.-

that city of a Mr. C. H. Cole, and accompanies the no-
tice with the following narrative of the painful circum-
stances which led to that event :—About eight years since,
being on a journey, with a friend sitting by his side in the
vehicle, in the county of Dorset, he arrived at a turnpike-
gate, and took a sixpence from his pocket in order to pay
the toll. While drawing his outer coat close, which had
been thi own open to get at the coin, he placed the six-
pence between his lips; at this instant his friend said
something irresistibly laughable, and giving wary to it,
without thought as to his situation, the coin slipped into
the orifice of the throat. After the first alarm, however,
feeling apparently but little inconvenience from what had

occurred, bethought but little of it, and in talking of it.
being a man of extremely firm mind, he made light of the
At length, however, there were produced effects

matter

Mr. Cole had

not only the advantage of the first surgicaladvice in Exeter,
but these gentlemen declining to perform an operation
Nada a view to the extraction of the coin, he repaired to
London, and became a patient in Guy's Hospital. His
sufferings were now become at times most acute, and it
was evident that a serious inroad was making on an other-
wise strong frame and firm constitution. His fortitude,
however, was unsubdued, and, after several consultations
of the medical gentlemen connected with the institution
be was in, finding they declined the performance of an
operation with a view to his relief, and that this arose
from an apprehension of the consequences, he offered to
give them a document which should be legally drawn up,
absolving them from all consequences. Still, however,

they declined, and he returned to Exeter. Here he again
referred to the faculty, by whom he was directed to be
careful, to abstain from all circumstances of excitement ;
to be cautious as to his dress, never omitting flannel next
his skin, and most especially to avoid exposing himself
to damp. There was, however, frequent cough, and symp-

toms that two surely showed the ravages disease was mak-
ing within. Still, being naturally cheerful, with intervala
of ease, passed quietly along. A few weeks since, how-
ever, during a very high state of the temperature, he
neglected the flannel part of his drass, and a circumstance
of a popular and exciting nature occurring, in which he
had taken considerable interest, he was led to expose him-
self on a most unfavourrble evening, and got wet. Even
this, however, was not at first heeded, and it is feared be

again exposed himself to damp. The consequences were
fatal. He became seriously ill, and his sufferings were
most excruciating, without the highest art in the pro-
fession being enabled to afford him the slightest aid, and
at ten minutes past twelve on the morning of the lith,
death released him from his. sufferings. After death a
post mortem examination of the body took place, when
the coin was found lodged in the right bronchia, the lung
being in a state of complete gangrene. The coin was
much BMO3 a u, the projecting parts of the figures and
letters git at y obliterated, and the piece bore the
!mina •acce of a t. r king which had long lain in some dirty
place. it is underttood that after being prepared for this
Purpo .e, the rem; it s of the lung and coin will be lodged
in the medical MUS. um. The other parts of the body
were he ilthr, n" there were all the characteristics of a
strong man.—[lt will be remembered that some years
ago, Mr. Brunel, jun., the well-known engineer, nearly
lost his life by a similar accident, he having, while amusing
himself with some children, swallowed a half-sovereign,
which, after be had endured much, was with difficulty,
and by great exertion of surgical skill, extracted from his
throat.—Ed. L. S.]