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William Robinson
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Seven deals Surgeon
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on his Oath Saith That on the Ninth day of January instant
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a Girl came to him desiring him to come to see a Woman
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who was very ill and on going to the House of one
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Mary Forster
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No 39 in
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New Compton Street
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where he was directed
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he found deceased dead. and upon Examining the Body
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the deceased appeared to have lost a great quantity of
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blood the cause of which he apprehends from every
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observation he could make was owing to the deceaseds
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having been suddenly seized with a violent fit of laughing
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which had occasioned the bursting of an Artery inwardly
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and owing to the amazing lost of blood in consequence
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thereof was the cause of her Death. and as there was
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no external Marks of violence on her Body which could
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have produced the great quantity of blood that came
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from the deceased Deponent in opinion that her Death
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was occasioned in manner aforesaid and not by any
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other Cause. and he is more satisfied in his opinion as
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the colour of blood issuing from a Vein and blood Issuing from
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