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gether. After carrying on this trade for 4 or 5 years, he left it off; as he attri- 

 buted his disorder chiefly to the effects of the meal dust. The fevers have not 

 been so violent since, as while he followed that occupation : though the cuticle, 

 or outer skin, has come off, the same as before. As to the particulars of his 

 illness, they are nearly as follow : the disorder begins with a violent fever, at- 

 tended with pains in the head, back, and limbs, accompanied with continual 

 retchings ; he sometimes vomited up much bile, at other times little or none ; 

 the skin was dry, the tongue much furred, together with great thirst, costiveness, 

 and the urine highly coloured. At the beginning of the fever he was generally 

 let blood ; this evacuation afforded some relief, and by keeping his body open, 

 and taking cooling medicines, the retchings abated in about 5 or 6 days : the 

 whole surface of the body became yellow, though this circumstance did not al-^ 

 ways happen. Afterwards it became florid, having the appearance of a rash ; oil 

 which he felt a great uneasiness for -several days, with a numbness and tingling 

 all over him ; when the urine became turned, and deposited a thick sediment. 

 About the beginning of the 3d week from the first attack, the cuticle appeared 

 elevated in many places. In 8 or y days afterwards it became so loose as to ad- 

 mit of being easily removed in large flakes. The cuticle of the hands from the 

 wrist to the fingers' ends came off whole, bearing the resemblance of a glove. 

 He never was disposed to sweat in any part of his illness, and when sweating was 

 attempted by medicines he grew worse for it ; nor was he much at ease till his 

 urine deposited a sediment, after which he felt very little inconvenience, but 

 from the rigidity of the skin. The nails of the patient, in a case communicated 

 to the R. s., are mentioned to have come off after the illness ; Mr. L. did not 

 find that this was ever the case in this person. 



Of a Very Small Foetus. By Mr. Joseph Warner, p. 453. '"'' 



With the above cuticular glove was sent to the r. s. by Mr. Warner, a 

 very small foetus, brought into the world at the same time with a live child at its 

 full growth. The woman was delivered before he came to her: on examining 

 the placenta, a substance appeared somewhat unusual ; and on washing it clean, 

 he discovered the foetus above mentioned. It had no visible communication with 

 the placenta, but was squeezed flat, though not in the least putrid, and seemed 

 shrivelled. He did not remember a case like this mentioned, except in Smellie's 

 Midwifery, vol. 2, p. 85, where he relates one from the Academy of Sciences 

 at Paris, nearly similar to this. May we not suppose the woman to have been 

 with child of twins ; and that this dying was not discharged, as was most likely to 

 hap]jen, but remained till the time of the natural birth, when they were both 

 expelled together? 



