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he no sooner found himself hurt, but he gave the dog such a blow with a poker, 

 as laid him dead on the spot. The wound, being slight, soon healed up, and he 

 thought no more of it ; and he enjoyed good health till about 2 o'clock the 

 Thursday morning before, when he was seized with a violent sickness and vomit- 

 ing. The day following he continued very ill, and particularly felt an unusual 

 pain, whenever he attempted to drink. Friday and Saturday that symptom grew 

 worse ; and on Sunday he could not swallow the least quantity of liquor, with- 

 out the utmost misery. This was the day they saw him. He looked somewhat 

 wild in his eyes ; but in his discourse discovered no signs of madness. His pulse 

 was extremely quick, but not weak and depressed. They examined his fauces, 

 and found an inflammation. They desired him to give them an opportunity to 

 see how he could bear an attempt to get down some liquid. He readily con- 

 sented. He chose to sit down on the floor, then took a cup of water in his own 

 hand, and put it to his mouth. The moment the liquor reached his throat, he 

 suddenly sprung up on his feet, and ran about the room in the most violent 

 agony that can be conceived. It must be observed, that he could get down 

 small quantities of food that was solid, all the time this symptom was upon 

 him. 



He informed them he had been let blood twice the day before he came to 

 them. They agreed to take from him 12 oz. more, and to give him 1 gr. of 

 extract. Theb. every hour, till there appeared some signs of stupor from the me- 

 dicine. They also ordered him a clyster of decoct, furfuris with nitre. The 

 blood was found next day not differing from that of a person in health. The 

 extract was made up in pills of ] gr. each, which he could swallow without dif- 

 ficulty. Dr. W. saw him again at 8 o'clock at night, at which time he had 

 taken 5 grs. of opium, but did not appear to be in the least affected by it, being 

 much in the same state he had left him in at one. He had had the clyster twice, 

 but no stool either time. He went on with the pills till he had taken 15 grs. 

 but no effect could be perceived from them. He passed the night in great 

 anxiety, being for the most part on his legs, and at times light-headed. A good 

 deal of frothy saliva was discharged from his mouth. About 8 o'clock in the 

 morning he died. A few minutes before he expired, he said, that he was sen- 

 sible he was going to die; and expressed much concern for the loss which his 

 wife and children would have of him. That day they had him opened. The 

 lungs were found full of blood. Water in the pericardium in the usual quan- 

 tity. The blood in both ventricles of the heart fluid. The oesophagus without 

 any morbid appearance. (Vide Boerhaave Aphor. 1140.) The aspera arteria 

 full of such frothy substance as came from his mouth. The stomach filled with 

 liquor, notwithstanding the small quantity he had drank since Wednesday 

 evening. No other parts were examined. 



