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ing seven or eight years, to an enor- 

 mous magnitude, weighing upwards 

 of forty pounds. While this swell- 

 ing was in progress, she had been 

 the mother of three children, all 

 now living, the eldest three years 

 old, and the youngest two months. 

 AVe understand that a cast has been 

 taken of the limb in plaster of Paris ; 

 but we regret that it had not been 

 previously injected, because there 

 can be no doubt that the pressure 

 of so large a tumour must have ren- 

 dered the femoral artery completely 

 impervious, and^ consequently, that 

 the limb, together with the great 

 mass of sebaceous accumulation, 

 must have been for some years sup- 

 plied Mith the necessary circulation 

 hy the anastomosing branches alone. 

 This would have added one to the 

 cases on which the Medical Specta- 

 tor founded his proposal for curing 

 the poplitceal aneurism, by an im- 

 provement in the application of the 

 tourniquet, thereby obviating the 

 necessity of the very painful and 

 dangerous separation at first pro- 

 posed by the late John Hunter. 

 We hope this may serve as a call 

 upon the author of that useful and 

 entertaining work, the Medical 

 Spectator, to complete his third 

 volume, which he appears to have 

 abandoned in so unaccountable a 

 manner. 



8th. This morning, between 8 

 and 9, a young man, named Robert 

 Whiting, clerk to Messrs. Anson 

 and CO. distillers. Stanhope-street, 

 Clare-market, shot himself through 

 the head %vith a pistol, in his bed- 

 room. A brother clerk of the de- 

 ceased slept in an adjoining room to 

 his. He rose about 8 that morn- 

 ing, called to the deceased, and said 

 he was going down stairs to break- 

 fast. The deceased said be would 



follow him in a few minutes. He had 

 but just sat down to the breakfast, 

 table, when he heard the discharge 

 of a pistol, and it not being knowa 

 whence it proceeded, and the de- 

 ceased not coming to breakfast at 

 the appointed time, suspicion arose 

 that something had happened to 

 him, and several of the household 

 went to his room door, which they 

 found fastened ; and, calling to the 

 deceased, received no answer ; they 

 then proceeded to break it open> 

 when they discovered the deceased 

 on the floor, with another pistol 

 lying near him, and loaded. He 

 had put on a clean shirt, and dres- 

 sed himself, except putting on his 

 coat. No cause could be assigned 

 for the rash act. On examination, 

 his accounts were found to be cor- 

 rect. The coroner's jury sat on the 

 body ; and, on the evidence of seve- 

 ral witnesses, it appeared that the 

 deceased was subject to very violent 

 head-aches, which made him at cer- 

 tain times not know what he was 

 doing ; they brought in a Tcrdictof 

 lunacy. 



The reigning duke of Brunswick. 

 Oels, general of infantry, in the 

 Prussian service, and knight of the 

 order of the black eagle, &c. &c. 

 He was on a visit to the ducal court 

 of Weimar, and was carried otf by 

 an hemorrhoidal attack, aged 65. 

 By his death the sovereignty of the 

 principality of Oels devolves to 

 prince William of Brunswick. 



9th. Ensign David Blacklock, of 

 the Dumfrieshire militia. He died 

 soon after receiving a mortal wound 

 in one of his thighs, in a duel with 

 lieut. William Nimmo, of the Ber- 

 wickshire militia, on Musselburgh- 

 links, near Edinburgh. 



10th. In his 49th year, John 

 Bennet, es^. president of the royaJ 



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