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The saliva was driveling from his month, and on examination 
the lips, tongue and all the mncons membrane of the month were 
seen to be severely blistered. The pulse was weak and legs 
cold. He looked quite cheerful from his eyes ; in fact, his ex¬ 
pression from these organs never looked distressed till just before 
death. 
An attempt to give him a drench of demulcent with opium 
was made, but he could swallow only with great difficulty. He 
rapidly grew worse and by six o’clock he would squeal when he 
made an effort to swallow, and administration of anything per 
mouth was discontinued, and, knowing that death was inevita¬ 
ble, only hypodermics of morphia were given, but soon this had 
no perceptible effect. Gradually he grew worse. He became 
more restless, would paw the floor for a moment, then attempt 
to lie down. At frequent intervals he would attempt to void 
urine, but would pass only a small quantity and with evident 
pain. Frequent passages of mucous-covered faeces the first two 
hours, but this symptom was not noticed later in his sickness. 
Perspiration stood over his body, which was very cold to the 
touch ; thermometer registered ioi° at 6 p. m. About this time 
he began to lie down and roll on his back, which position he 
seemed to prefer. At 7 o’clock p. m., suffering very great agony, 
and the thrashing about and wild striking with the limbs, made 
him dangerous to handle. About ii o’clock p. m. a peculiar 
crackling of the joints was observed, as if the synovia had com¬ 
pletely dried up, and the “ hinges ” fairly creaked. It was 
noted that the limbs were very clean and fluted ; there did not 
seem to be an ounce of areola or fibrous tissue beneath the skin, 
and the tendons stood out like cords of rope. Still he champed 
his jaws, while saliva, with shreds of mucous membrane, driv¬ 
eled from the mouth, and rolled and tumbled and stretched to 
urinate at short intervals until one o’clock A. m., when he grew 
easier and remained quiet for thirty minutes. He looked a sorry 
sight at this time—lips pendulous and swollen and body covered 
with perspiration ice-cold. Suddenly he gave a leap from the 
farther corner of his box for the door, but luckily we had it 
closed and barred, but in spite of the precaution he nearly broke 
through it. After struggling against it for five minutes he fell 
in a heap dead at the door—at three o’clock, twelve hours from 
the time of taking the draught. 
Post-mortemed at 2 P. M.^ July 12th .—The digestive tract 
from the lips to the floating colon was inflamed. The oesophagus 
was entirely denuded of its mucous membrane ; its muscular 
