Five Cases of Charcoal Vapour Poisoning

that a member of his syce's family was dead, and that all the others appeared to be dying. On my arrival at 8-30 a.m., I found the above description to be literally true. In one of the servants' houses, consisting of a single apartment, lying on a charpoy, with the face upwards, was the dead body of a young man. The legs hung over the end of the bed, with the feet touching the ground as if the man had fallen backwards from a sitting posture. A quantity of froth protruded from the mouth, which was firmly closed; the eyes were shut. The body had partially cooled, and cadaveric rigidity was commencing in the limbs. On the floor were four persons?two men and two women?husband and wife, with daughter a,nd son-in-law, all perfectly insensible, and evidently in a very precarious condition. They appeared as if profoundly under the influence of an anaesthetic; the breathing was laboured