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and shown, breathes with comparative impu- 

 nity an atmosphere laden with the infectious 

 miasma of this typhus. But that which to- 

 deceased became covered with blood, but he did not 

 prick or cut himself. 



Henrietta Dansie, nurse, was examined, and said that 

 deceased had been suffering from boils on his right arm, 

 one of which she had poulticed on Wednesday, the day 

 before he had examined the diseased animal. He re- 

 moved the poultice himself, but declined to put on a 

 plaster as the place was a small one, although not healed. 

 He changed his linen on his return from Melford ; but 

 the same afternoon he was taken with sickness and 

 vomiting, and complained of acute pains in his head and 

 bones. On Sunday afternoon, shortly before he died, he 

 wished to have his bed made, and got out and stood 

 whilst it was being done. He then complained of faint- 

 ness, and got into bed again, and witness to revive him 

 washed his face and hands ; in doing so she observed that 

 the nails of one of the hands which had lain in the bed 

 were turning black. She was about to give him some 

 pills when she noticed a sudden change come over him; 

 and thinking he was going to faint or have a fit, she rang 

 for assistance and went herself for the doctor, who, being 

 from home, another surgeon residing next door was called 

 in, but by this time the unfortunate gentleman was quite 

 dead. 



Mr. Maurice Mason, surgeon, said he was called in to 

 see the deceased the night before he died, and visited 

 him again on Sunday morning, and ordered him a lotion 

 and leeches for his head and effervescing drinks (the 

 leeches were not applied). From the appearance of the 

 body and the evidence which had been adduced, witness 



