40 Account of the Last Illness 



On Thursday morning, I found that he had been deli- 

 rious in the night ; had got out of his bed in spite of his 

 nurse ; but had immediately tumbled down upon the 

 floor. When I saw him, he muttered indistinctly, but 

 seemed sensible of what I said to him ; gave me his 

 hand to feel his pulse, on my requesting it. 



At 2 o'clock in tlie afternoon, I found him evidently 

 worse ; he was insensible ; his stools were discharged 

 involuntarily, and very frequently, and, as the nurse told 

 me, were merely discoloured water. He had now 

 a blister applied ; had clysters of a decoction of 

 bark ; some draughts, with oil of cinnamon ; but, from 

 this time, grew worse and worse, and died on Friday 

 afternoon, at four o'clock. 



His corpse was examined by Mr. Hunter and myself, 

 on Sunday, at 10 o'clock, and we observed as follows : 



Upon opening the abdomen, two or three ounces of 

 water were found in the pelvis. The bladder had about 

 six ounces of water in it, of a natural colour. His small 

 intestines appeared very red or inflamed at particular 

 parts, Mhich, on opening into their cavities, were found 

 to be the glandulse peyeri enlarged. One cluster of 

 them seemed ulcerated. The glandula; solitarise were, 

 some of them, of the size of a split pea. The mesen- 

 teric glands were much enlarged, and, ^hen cut into, 

 were found to be remarkably soft and tender. The 

 stomach, near to its upper orifice, had the vessels of its 

 villous coat full of blood. They broke down on a veiy 

 slight pressure. His liver seemed rather small. The 



