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PMarione
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 Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 11:15 am Post subject: The sailor who swallowed knives |
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From the Gentleman's Magazine of April 1809:
The story was told by Dr Alexander Marcet in the <I>Medico Chirurgical Transactions</I> of 1822, http://www.ageofnelson.org/pdf/Medico_Chirurgical_Transactions.pdf
and again in a more recent article by Jonathan Charles Goddard: A seaman's wager, Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, July 2003, vol 96, p 359-360 http://www.ageofnelson.org/pdf/Cumming.pdf
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PS: If like me, you google "Cumming swallow knives", it's at your own soul's peril. |
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alexlitandem
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Well, Patrick,
He was, clearly, an especially retarded chap.
Why knives?
Why not, say, Bowsprits?
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PMarione
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Probably didn't understand that the jugglers were using a trick!
At least he had his name in the papers.
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