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 and family that (to use his own expression) he had inoculated himself, and he already began to feel the bad consequences of it over all that side of his body on which the finger was cut. At five o’clock the next morning, he complained exceedingly, when medical assistance was sent for but no kind of relief could be given, and with such rapidity did the morbific matter attack his system, that he actually became a corpse, in the highest degree of putridity, by eleven o’clock that day, being less than 24 hours from the introduction of the matter to his dissolution. The above seems worthy of being mentioned as a caution to such as may be employed in the like operation.

A melancholy accident occurred in a distillery in Belfast. When the fermenting vat was to be cleaned, though the men had been always strictly enjoined to have a large piece taken out on the previous night, and also to put down some burning coals, and afterwards to throw a quantity of water, in order to expel the new air, yet, from mere negligence, one of them without even trying the simple experiment of sending blown a lighted candle, rashly descended into the vat, and was suffocated in a moment. His