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complained bitterly of heat, and made constant 
efforts to throw off the warm blankets which were 
heaped upon him. Between twelve and one o’clock, 
I could no longer feel the pulsations at the wrist; 
but they were perceived by Mr. Forster, surgeon 
of the 46th regiment. It is impossible to. convey 
in words, an accurate idea of his looks, but they 
were expressive of anguish and despair; or, tovuse 
the words of Bontius on a similar occasion, “ nos 
truculenter intuebatur.” About three o’clock, the 
symptoms began to moderate, and the pulse rose, 
but the re-action was very weak. During the 
following day, he took two grains of calomel 
every two hours, and had occasional 'vomitings 
and liquid stools. He continued getting better 
till next morning at eight o’clock, when he was 
seized with delirium, and convulsions of the whole 
body, and died in fifteen minutes, the disease 
having lasted altogether about fifty-eight hours. », 
xcv. The dissection of this patient was ex- 
tremely satisfactory. When the upper part of the 
scull was removed, the brain seemed to rise up, 
as if the cavity of the cranium had been too small 
for it. Between the pia mater, and tunica arach- 
noidea, there was a considerable quantity of serum. 
The blood-vessels of the brain were excessively 
distended, but there was no effusion in the 
ventricle. The blood-vessels of the lungs and 
abdominal viscera, were rather turgid, but neither 

