'Hurried to death', or, A few words of advice on the danger of hurry and excitement : especially addressed to railway travellers / by Alfred Haviland.

  • Haviland, Alfred, -1903.
Date:
1868
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Credit: 'Hurried to death', or, A few words of advice on the danger of hurry and excitement : especially addressed to railway travellers / by Alfred Haviland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Case V. Subject.—A Man with known tendency to Apoplexy. Exciting Cause of Death.—Hurrying to catch the Train just after a meal. Mr. Thomas Boardman, of Blackburn, Lancashire, an artist of considerable talent, about sixty-five years of age, fair, florid, and stout, of a nervo-sanguineous temperament, excitable, and rather choleric, died suddenly four or five years ago. On the day of his death he was in his usual good health, and went to Whalley, to spend a few hours with a friend, at whose house he took tea, after which he hurried to catch the train to Blackburn. He reached the station, much excited with his exertion, and whilst talking to a gentleman on the platform, fell down in a fit of apoplexy, and died in a few minutes. He had been cautioned as to the danger of exciting himself, having been on a former occasion threatened with an attack of apoplexy, to which a full habit of body and a naturally excitable temperament had, during the last few years of his life, rendered him liable. Case VI. Subject.—A Man having some Heart Disease. Exciting Cause of Death.—Hurrying to catch the Train. F. A., a magistrate and retired merchant, hurried from the Basin, at Bristol, to the Bristol and Exeter Railway Station, was much exhausted on his arrival, and died whilst in the act of drinking a glass of soda water. He had just arrived by the steamer from Ilfracombe, and in all probability had had nothing to eat for some hours previous to his death. Case VII. Subject.—A Man supposed to be healthy. Exciting Cause of Death.—Hurrying to catch the Train. A. B., a man supposed to have been in good health, walked, or rather ran, very hurriedly to the Wolverhampton Station of the London and North Western line ; on his arrival he fell down dead in the ticket office.