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the internal coat of the stomach, nor duodenum, 
exhibited the minute injected red appearance of 
inflammation. The gall-bladder was filled with 
bile, resembling half liquid pitch. 
xcvi. In numerous instances, the patient dies 
comatose, without any re-action, which always 
terminates the disease, when it is sufficiently brisk 
to raise the animal temperature a little higher 
than natural. 
xcevil. Private Charles Williams, whom I had 
previously known for several years, had one liquid 
stool at three o’clock in the morning, and when 
returning to his bed, he felt a few wandering 
spasms in his legs, which went off in a minute or 
two. At ten o’clock, the spasms of the legs and 
abdomen became instantly very severe; when I 
reached his bed-side, his face was so pale and 
altered, that I with difficulty believed it possible, 
that his features could have been changed in such 
a manner as to make him appear at first an un- 
known individual. The pulse was 80, and very 
feeble; the gastrocnemii muscles were contracted, 
and hard to the touch, like a piece of wood; he 
was holding them with both hands, and screaming 
with pain. At this time he had no vomiting, but 
I was certain that it would soon come on, when 
I heard that he had been purged in the night. 
He was ordered a strong dose of laudanum, in 
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