[23]. Recherches Anatomico-Pathologiques sur l’Encephale et Ses Dependances, par F. Lallemand. Paris 1820-21.
[24]. In three cases in which these deposits were found in contact with the olfactory nerve, the patients had suffered much for a considerable time, previous to death, from the sensation of unpleasant odours.
[25]. See cases illustrative of the Pathology of the Brain, by R. Powell, M.D. Med. Trans. vol. 5. Dr. Martinet describes a well marked case of Arachnitis, complicated with fracture of the cranium. Bulletin de l’Athenée de Med. de Paris.
[26]. Baillie’s Morbid Anatomy.
[27]. The reader will also be very much amused by the account of the dissection of Charles II, and of the appearances which supported the idea of his having died from poison. Burnett’s Hist. of his own times, vol. ii, p. 230.
[28]. The case of John Lees, which formed the subject of the Oldham inquest, appears in this respect to have borne some analogy; see also the case related by Baron Larey, p. 15.
[29]. Surgical Observat.
[30]. Cobbett’s State Trials, vol. ii, p. 503.
[31]. We have already alluded to such a cause of suffocation, (see p. 58 and 438.) The following instructive case has been transmitted to us by Mr. Alcock, whose zeal and acumen in anatomical researches are as honourable to himself, as they are useful to the profession of which he is so active a member.
“Wm. Thompson, æt. 36, formerly a soldier of the 27th regt. late a watchman of St. James’s parish, had had three fits, stated to be epileptic, within the last two years.