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water, he was seized with convulsions. All 

 was done that could be done. The faculty of 

 Nottingham, consisting of Doctor Williams, 

 Doctor Percy, Mr. Attenburrow, Mr. Sibson, 

 and Mr. Davison, had soon arrived ; and they 

 put in practice whatever their well known 

 knowledge of medicine could suggest, or their 

 pharmacy offer, to save this useful and respected 

 man from an untimely grave. But all in vain. 

 The terrible disease, with its concomitant 

 horrors of spasmodic affection, baffled all their 

 skill, and set their united science at utter 

 defiance ; for death was hurrying their patient 

 with unrelenting fierceness to his last resting- 

 place. 



Whilst things were in this deplorable state, 

 an express was sent off to me late in the even- 

 ing, and I proceeded to Nottingham without 

 any loss of time, in hopes that the application 

 of the Wourali poison might be the means of 

 rescuing poor Phelps from the fate, which 

 nothing in the practice of modern medicine 

 seemed able to avert. When I had reached 

 Nottingham with my friend Sir Arnold Knight, 

 who had joined me at Sheffield, the unfortunate 

 police officer was no more. I saw him in his 



