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Show JlIorbid anatomy officeer. had before said that four days before death, painful ulcers had rapidly spread from the gums over the mouth and become gangrenous. counted for from the condition of the viscera" An oval" tumour three inches and a halflong, two thick, which had produced very severe The following instance is curious in another pain, was cut out of one of the large nerves view :-A fever-patient, brought into the hos~ pital at Lisle, the 5th day, had a phrenitic de- lirium-and refused all liquids-the 7th he which form the brachial plexus. The patient did well till the 4th day, when he lost his appetite, and had unusual heat on his skin with some in- began to recover his reason. An emetic and sharp; skin hotter; thirst; depression of spirits; died on the 7th. ter till the l lth day-«incessant desire for food-- difficult to keep him to a proper regimen; (lied almost suddenly the 14th. Two hours before, he had drank without appearing worse. The blisters had dried suddenly in the night; lungs sound, though studded with black spots; stow mach contained only bile-nothing remarkable in the bowels-liver soft and large; in the late" ral ventrieles a serous effusion, somewhat conl On the 6th his pulse was quick excessive thirst-~--blisters-diluents with nitre--- pulse strong and intermitting, yet he got bet- l crease of pulse. brought away much green bile with worms-- siderable-fDamien, He (F). Cul'z‘ism‘z‘, iv. 152.) unless the spots on thelungs were of more The cyst in the nerve was found much contracted and thickened. The cavity was lined with coagulated lymph from inflammation and almost filled with coa- gulated blood. Inflammation had extended some way round, and the contiguous parts were consolidated. The other parts ofthe body in a natural state. (Trails. of a Society, London, 1800, ii. 160.) Here we seem to have a clear proof of fatal consequences from consider- able inflammation upon three and a half inches ofa large nerve, extending in a degree to others of the plexus and lasting a little more than six «*onsetprenee than is rcpresentel, death must have arisen from some latent cause. The liquid days. in the ventricles was, I presume, too little to account for the ell‘ect; nor does death seem to insnpportable sufferings and within live or six happen in that sudden way from such effusion. We have already upon record dissections that small pullet's egg to double that bulk, is not , in some ‘nstanees, guide us to the cause 6 fatal :, nhcu this cannot be accounted Whereas the inflammation which gene- rated the tumour, and lasted a year, producing weeks enlarging the tumour from the size of a stated to have even impaired the constitution. It is a reflection of the Operator, Mr. Everard Home, that " the inllannnation of a nerve," (meaning- |