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which he ate with

• good appetite_, _ spoke irationally,

in-

and was

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through all the stages of the discaw. When the

intermission recurred,

-good spirits. Foard Quinine was

• evening

the delusion

was exhibited. On the 18th. he declared

: ranicked_; restlessness, himself as feeling quite

black ; and convulsions super »

vomiting, delirium,

vened, and carried_ him

off before morning!

The concourte.

well-, and. was

apyretic ;

his pulse not indicating

even the slightest.

constitutional irritation.

About - 4 P..M.

on the 19th, I was

and

called to see him, found him-comatose

and convulsed, with lividity, intense heat,

and

dryness of the skin

Death closed the scene

in. a

a few minutes! "

of many people, during

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the reign of epidemic influences, gives pestilential violence to the disease. The emanations from the sick bodies will often precipitate a disease-

have remained dormant, or passed

that

say

away in very safe- paroxyems.

little doubt that

many

Here

be

can

cases went into the

the

Military Hospital - Cast, summer, to receive -inoculation of death from the contaminated

atmosphere of the crowded wards, which would have terminated in recovery

Not only

coerc

the deadly

deadly omcanations

elsewhere.

from

concentrated disease ready to receive-

ready to receive the patient,

but his mind wandered to the crowded- dead. = house, and the prognosis of his own fate=

struck, his mind at the same moment.

ares

This, in the majority of cases,

ces, was too faithful! How much it is to be regretted that there occurred.

any impediment to the prompt and efficient fulfilment of Dr Fergusson's recommendation, at the earliest assaults of