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features are pinched; his eyes sink and look glassy ; his 

 tongue is brown and dry; the breathing is oppressed 

 with heaving gasps, the sputa is scanty and offensive ; 

 the pulse is thready, rapid, and intermittent; he swal- 

 lows with difficulty ; the lower jaw drops, and a cold 

 clammy sweat bedews his brow. In this condition he 

 was again seen by Mr. Yeldham at 10 a.m., who gave 

 the afflicted relatives hopes of recovery. 



At 3 p.m. he was no more, and his spirit winged its 

 flight to another sphere. 



A post-mortem examination which was performed in 

 the presence of, and with the assistance of Dr. Vaughn n 

 Hughes, twenty-four hours after death, gave us the 

 following results : 



The liver was considerably hypertrophied and mela- 

 notic; in fact, it presented a black, charred, brittle mass, 

 which crumbled under the slightest pressure. In the 

 centre of the right lobe was found a cavity full six inches 

 long, and suiliciently capacious to hold a pint pot; at its 

 anterior extremity was a perforation about the cir- 

 cumference of a shilling, which opened into the oblique 

 portion of the duodenum, boi lric ex- 



tremity of the stomach ; the completion of this eanal was 

 announced on the morning of the liUth September by the 

 upheaving of nearly one pint of pus, which continued 

 more or less till three or four days before death. At 

 the posterior surface of the same cavity was another 

 opening, the circumference of a crown piece, which 

 perforated the diaphragm and pleura, and broke down 

 the right lung into a thousand shreds, which were found 

 floating in about four or rive pints of grunious fluid. 

 The spleen, like the liver, was an hypertrophied black, 



