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 of Anatomy, (p. 165.) "An industrious man returning home from his work, found his house empty; the bed he was to lie upon, and the tools of his trade, sold for liquor by his wife, whom he found in a gin shop, where she had been drinking and dancing. He brought her home, and in the passage of his house struck her, and ordered her to go up stairs; she refused to go; he carried her upon his shoulders, and the contention continuing up stairs, he struck her again. There having been no one present, we have only the husband's account of her death. He said that whilst sitting on her chair, she fell down, upon which he threw her on the bed, conceiving that she was in a fit, such as he had seen her in formerly. Some of her neighbours coming in, found her dead. Mr. C. Bell was requested to examine the body of this woman. The man was afterwards tried at the Old Bailey, for murder, when Mr. Bell deposed, that upon taking out the brain, and tracing the vessels in the base, the anterior artery of the cerebrum going off from the internal carotid of the left side, was found torn half way across. The cause of this woman's death was the bursting of the blood from the ruptured vessel; as to the cause of the rupture, Mr. Bell's opinion coincided with the best authorities in pathology, that there is a state of the vessels, in which an external injury or shock is more apt to produce rupture; and drunkenness may be supposed to be the artificial state of excitement