Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1844-03-06
MISCELLANEOUS :
SIR ERANCIs. .BURDETT.

: SIR FRANCIS @BURDETT. S.
The London Times gives the following
statement in relation to the sickness and
death ofSir Francis Burdett:
! Many.repor;s are in circulation relative
to the immediate. cause Of Sir +. Burdetl':
death. We have instituted several inqui-
ries upon the subject, aud the following
facts may be relied upon:-I, has been
said many influential quarters. and by
individuals Of undoabted veracity, who
were about,the person of Sir Francis, that
the Hou.Jbarnnel was victim to what's
termed the hydropalhic system of treat
ment. We know for a fact, that on the
Sth Of Oclobcr, 1913, Sir f. Burdett placed
himself under ihe professional care Of an
hydropathist who has an esIablehmen, in
the neighborhood of London. lie was
conidenlly assured that if be adopted the
''water cure.'f he would have no return of
the gour, andfin fact, that all tendency 10
the disease would he removed. Sir Frau
els, accordingly subjected himself to the
ireatment. Contrary, however, 10 the pre-
ldictions Of his medical adviser, early in
EDecember following be had return5of
Ibis old enemys i,5. 5e4
l.ea Atthis period Lady Burde,t became Sc.
riodsly.lll, and. Sir Francis was compelled
TO leave the .hydropathic establishment.
He, however, frequently visited the ins.i-
Tuition, audcontinued to use:the cold waller
remedies. both atlhe establishmentand at
his ownshouse. Lady Burdett7( (who, al
Ithough strongly recommended, was not
E.permilledsto adopt the bydropatic mode of
cure died ofscirrhus offhe stomach. She
was attended, by DR.. Ferguson. and Sir B.
Brodiea Sir, Francis s(so great was his
| faith! in tho splap he was pursungJ persist
ed almostto the very last in maintaining
that had Lady Burdett submitted TO cold
water Treatment, .her.life would have beer
prolonged. On the very day upon. which
Lady ;Bnrdslt was to- lhave been buried,
Sir FRANCIS wassseized with an attack Of
hemorrbagc from The lungs. Up to the Sa-
turday previously ITO Sir Francis death
The hydropalhist was in attendance, but al
thattimc Miss Hurdelt Couus perempto-
rilyrefusedto allow any moro bydropathic
experiments to be tried upon her father
without lhe full concurrence of his pF1ysi
clan. Shortly subsequent 10 Ibis, physi.
clan in the metropolis, who had frequently
been in attendance upon Sir F., received
communicative from Miss Burdett Coutrs
i'll which she said, that she had no hesita-
lion in asserting that the cold water treat.
mentbad destroyed one ofthe noblest coa-
sltuious ever given 10 man; that il had
reduced Sir f. Burdelt to a state of great
debility, from which i. was impossible for
him TO recover. -,
She also expressed her determination 10
resist. tho further use Of such quackeries,
unless sanctioned by the medical gentle
men who had been consulted. The prox-
innate cause. of SiraF. Burdelt's death is
said 10 have been an affection OF The lungs;
and dsubsequently of the brain, arising, as i,
is staled, from a translation of the goul
from the exiremilies to 1.-The above named
vital organs. For this attack he was at
tended By DR.. Farr. Sir r. Burde.t was
quite delirions for AT least "a hours pre-
cediDg bis dissolution, aud recognized no
person near his deathbed. II has been snid
that so welded was Sir Francis to the un-
fortunate cold water delusion, that he was
in the habit of riding out on shorseback
envelopcd in wet towels. He thought
highly of fhydropat,y. but he had extended
the. same confidence previously to 81.
John Longs modesof treatment, as well as
10, homeopathy The death of Lady Bur-
.telt nodoubl affected Sir Francis much.
In allusion to her denise,he was heardto
say a,short period before; his fatal illness
supervencd, that he did not wish for DEATH:
,as5hc had yetamuch to do. Owing TO the
sudden natnre oil Sir E. Burdeu's attack,
Lady Burdett's funeral was suspended.
The husband and wife are now both to be
inferred on the same day.
Heroism in Francc.-A curious docu-
!. hI,otoJ 80, ~ .L.