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NEWJ.736.016
29 Jun 1736:13 (482)
London. March 18. Monday morning died at his lodgings upon
Saffron Hill, Thomas Watson, a journeyman to Mr. Lowe a
turner in St. John's-street, near Clerkenwell, who about a
fortnight ago, being employed by his master to turn a
certain West-India wood called Manchineel, into punch
ladles, it being a hard beautiful wood, and not knowing the
pernicious quality of it, the dust of it so affected his
eyes, that in a few hours his sight began to fail him, and
in three days he was quite blind, which was attended with
such exquisite pain, as immediately deprived him of his
senses, which increased to raving madness, and he died
singing on Monday morning about three o'clock. . .
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