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diately carried to his quarters ; his coun- 

 tenance looked bloated, his breathing was 

 not much altered, except that it wa^ 

 ibmetimes interrupted with fpafms, which 

 feemed to throw him into great agonies ; 

 he complained of a fenfe of cold, and 

 there was a total cefTation of the pulfe of 

 both the heart and arteries. On the 29th 

 he was much in the fame way, com- 

 plained of a pain in his left fide, and of 

 a fenfe of fomething rifing in his throat, 

 but was able to walk about the room, 

 and had fome flools. On the 30th, in 

 the morning, he ftill remained in the 

 fame way, but died fuddenly that day. 

 tJpon opening the body, the pericardium" 

 was found immenfely diftended with 

 "blood, the heart was fqueezed and con- 

 tradled to a fmall fize, and, jufl above the 

 right- auricle, the finus of the vena cava 

 was ruptured about the length of an 



inch *. 



The 



* This hiftory was given to me by Dr Thomas Young 

 of Sheffield foon after the accident happened, in the fame 

 form as fent to him by the furgeon of the regiment wh» 

 attended the patient. 



