MISCELLANEA. 
505 
Second Sight. 
[Extract of a Letter from Dr. Forster, of Bruxelles.] 
r MUST mention an odd circumstance which occurred about 
two months before the death of my favourite dog. He was 
sleeping at dusk on the sofa, which he usually occupied, when I 
saw with great distinctness, as I thought, a white dog, having 
precisely his form and size, cross the room at a rapid rate. I 
presently ascertained this to be merely one of those phantoms of 
the imagination which often occur when one has long nursed a 
sick friend, or been intent on any one particular object. I could 
relate a hundred such cases : they are not rare, and constitute 
what, in Scotland, is called second sight ; they occur before death, 
as it seems, because it is by the forms of dying persons long 
cherished or nursed that the imagination is most strongly affected, 
particularly in individuals who have the requisite cerebral organi¬ 
zation. I mention the circumstance here only to shew how com¬ 
plete is the parallel between the death of men and other animals, 
even in the most minute particulars of those supernatural ap¬ 
pearances which are said to hover round them, and which are 
capable, by their coincidence with coming events, of exciting 
very marvellous ideas. 
The Symptoms accompanying a Case of enlarged And 
RUPTURED Liver. 
By Mr. J. P. Cheetham, London. 
[In a box which has for many a long month been unexamined, 
we found the following sketch. We add it to the few but 
valuable notes of the symptoms of Hepatirrhcea which the 
third and fourth volumes of our Journal contain. The liver 
in this case was exceedingly enlarged and softened; the fis¬ 
sure in the peritoneal coat was not very extensive, but the ab¬ 
domen was deluged with blood.—Y.] 
From the desire which you expressed to have the symptoms of 
my poor patient recorded, 1 am induced to send you the following 
sketch :— 
A black dray-horse, nearly seventeen years old, and in high 
condition, came from a journey of twenty miles. Nothi ng ap¬ 
peared to ail him until he entered the stable, and then he began 
to evince what seemed to be colicky pains, attended, however, 
with an appearance of exhaustion that was very striking. The 
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