oai k dangeou cas fi tly eawyer i_* thX o_mtioss, ho1 ar We to "do up. such a _ M quon as the eat time the operto shoud take place? It mut be left to the surgeon, whoe knowlep of the powes of vitality in disease and helth mus decid the point. CAsa. Mr. D., a respectable tresman residig in the Edgware Road, aged 30 years, of fair complexion and sandy ir, easily suceptible of sore throat when exposed to damp, about four months since, from such exposure, suffaed from a slight attack in the throat,

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... but did not take mch notice of it until August 12th, when he came under my care, and gradually improved for three days; but on to night of August 15th, I received a pressing message to attend him immediately, as he was "dying". On entering the room, I found him breathing laboriou6ly and stertorously, and every inspiration requiring the most violent dfrt. The pupils were contracted and turned up, the ceutenance livid and death-like, the pulse 150 and small, but the heart sounds natural; he was perfectly unconscious, and the thoracic walls were deficient in that natural swell