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PREFACE.


her way back she was overtaken by an old neighbour, who described rather minutely how a woman had been trampled to death by a bull in an adjacent field.

The effect on the nervous system of the child, probably in an incipient state of disease, was so powerful that she rushed home in a state of great terror and excitement, when the fever became fully developed; and, although medical