covered beyond the swollen condition of the left tonsil. There was no autopsy. The death was evidently caused by some sudden obstruction to the breathing at or near the glottis. It, is possible that the case was one of diphtheria, in which the exudation was confined to the luryux, a fragment of the membrane having become detached and arrested at the glottis ; but there had been no special symptom of diphtheria, and not the slightest difficulty of breathing until just before death. A more

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... e explanation of the sudden death would be oedema of the glottis, the result of extension of the pharyngitis to its immediate neighborhood.