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eribed. It was remarkable that the legs and feet retained 

 their natural warmth, and his appetite for the breast con- 

 tinued until the day before his death. 



From the complication of symptoms, a variety of re- 

 medies were administered, suggested by the appearan- 

 ces, as they presented themselves, and by the advice of 

 Doctors May and Archer: such as warm bath, fomenta- 

 tions to the perinaeum, cold bath, bougies, strong mer- 

 curial cathartics, &x. ; and, lastly, an issue on the right 

 side of the spine, about the first lumbar vertebra : but all 

 xvithout effect; and, after a tedious and painful illness of 

 nearly three months, supported with unexampled pa- 

 tience, Death kindly liberated the little sufferer, on the 

 21st of April, aged seven months. 



It may be worthy of remark, that from the birth of 

 the child until the day before the attack, it manifested 

 the highest health and vivacity. 



Having obtained permission, from the parents of the 

 infant, to examine it after death, on the following day, in, 

 the presence of Doctors Archer and M'Corkle, I open- 

 ed the cavity of the abdomen ; and the first object which 

 presented itself, was the diseased Pancreas, which very 

 much resembled, in size and form, part of the curvature 

 of the colon in an adult subject, but, upon closer exami- 

 nation, was found to be the Pancreas, considerably re- 

 moved from its natural position, being in the right hy- 

 pochondriac and iliac region, between the liver and right 

 kidney, and extending over the right kidney into the 

 brim of the pelvis. It was in length about six inches, 



