The Sun.
London, England, 1824-10-01 00:00:00

MONTHLY MILITARY OBITUARY.

Lieut.-Generals— Pfince, from 6th Dragoons, Ipswich;
Dunn, East India Company's Service, Great Malvern ; Ander-
son, ditto, London.

tolonel—C. Lord Castlecoote, Queen's County Militia.
Afgor— Bishop, half-pay, Ist Provisional Battalion of Mi.
litia, 1-larrowgate.
Captnins—eampbell, late Invalids, London ; Goodinge, Ad-
jutant, to Londonderry, Militia.
Lieutenants—. Kennedy, ret. Veteran COmpany, Stonehouse,
Devon; Mackenzie, half-pay, 35th Foot; Douglas, half-pay,
78th Foot, ,lava; Hawkey, half-pay, 9th Foot; enuring,
half-pay, 7th Line German Legion, Hanover; De elicry, half-
pay, Corsican Regiment; Anderson, half-pay, 12th Garrison
Battalion, Dinan France.

Paymaster—Barry, half-pay, 3fith Foot, Taunton.
Quarter-Maßter—Lawrie, half-pay, 104th Foot.
Assistant-Surgeon—Luby, halt pay, sth Veterinary Bat-
talion, Windsor.
Veterinary Surgeon.—Dalton, half pay, Ist Life Guards,
Vienna, Calais.
The death of Paymaster Harrison, 83d Regiment, was erro.
neously reported in the list foe last month.

An arrangement has been matte by the Commissioners of Chel-
ser tHospitnl for the payment of the Out.nensioncrs of that H ospi-
tal in haute at Oxford-market, instead of at Chelsea, as here-
tofore. For this purpose the Commissioners have taken a lease
for seven years of the large hall in the centre of the market,
which has been fitted up for the above use, for which it is pe-
culiarly adapted on account of its spaciousness, and also as hav-
ing four distinct entrances. The new place will be brought
into operation for the first time to-morrow, when the quarterly
payment of the pensioners will commence.

A meeting is intended to be held to-day, at
Liverpool, to-establish in ,that town a Branch of
the British Catholic Association.
SINGULAR CASE AT GUY'S lIOSPITAL.—On
Wednesday the 2211 ult. one of the most singular cases was ad-
mitted into this Hospital that has been witnessed for many
years, in the person of' Samuel Raffles, the head waiter at the
Dover Castle, Marshgate, Lambeth. He was seized with
every symptoni of a person labouring under the dreadful effects
of liyarephopia. He foamed ut the mouth, yelped and barked
like a dog, and on water being presented to him, he was im-
mediately attacked with repeated spasmodic convulsions of
the most violent nature. On being taken to this Hospital, he
was placed under the care of Dr. Back, who immediately
produced a copious discharge of blood, by ordering him to be
cupped in the side. lle then underwent a most strict exa
mination, to endeavour to ascertain if there were any wounds
about his body, which might have been occasioned by
the bite of an animal; but, after the most minute search;
none were discernible. By pursuing the " soothing system,"
he is now nearly recovered, and yesterday he was allowed
to walk about for exercise, perfectly at liberty, when 'we had
an opportunity of Reeing him ; and it he thus continues improv-
ing, he will be suffered to return to his family on Wednesday
next. This attack his medical attendants attribute to exces-
sive sympathy, supposed to have been occasioned by his read-
ing the account of James Drew, who had water injected into
his veins, according to the now method pursued in Paris by
Dr. Magendi, and who died in the hospital a few weeks ago
in violent tortures, the particulars of which we gave to the
public at the time. The ease of this poor fellow is a con- .
vincing proof (it' any proof were wanting) with what ease the
nerves of hypochondriacal individuals are influenced and open- 1
ated upon by reading similar accounts in the public journals.
It was shrewdly remarked by a very eminent physician .(the
ate Dr. Day, of Maidstone), that " if he had wished to in-
acme his practice, he had only to recommend the perusal of
linchotix Domestic Medicine to the whole of his nervous pa.
tients, and, they would have directly imagined that they were
afflicted with -the whole catalogue of human maladies."
THE INOCZ,I,LATIZDDOG.—it will be within the
recollection of our rzsders, that the operation of inoculating a
dog beneath the integuments of its thigh, was perfonned at
Guy's Hospital about thre9 weeks since, with the saliva pro-
duced front the mouth of James Drew, a poor fellow who there
tiled in a rabid state. The dog, still remains in the hospital,
secured, under the care of Jamet4 Gardiner, but as yet it has,
not, nor, it is imagined, ever will exhibit symptoms of hydro-
phobia. This is the same dog which was transfused about six
months ago by Dr. Blundell.
POISONOUS NATURE OP • AFRICAN TEAK
Woon.—ln the course of the last fortnight seven shipwrights
and two sawyers of Plymouth-yard have died. All these men
had received cuts or bruises while employed on African Teak
wood ; and though some have attributed the deaths to atmos.
pheric influence, there are not a few who assign them to the
•re-
ception of the poisonous juices of the above named timber. Of
these men, a sh ipwriglit, Gregory N icl mite a remarkably powerful
and active man, scratched his leg against a piece of the wood,
and mortification ensued almost immediately To ascertain the
probable cause, Dr. Bell, the surgeon, on londay last, opened
the body, and in the course of the dissection happened to scratch
one of his fingers, This passed unnoticed at the time, but
in the afternoon Dr. Bell became alarmed at perceiving it, think.
ing he might have imbibed some of the morbid matter. Shortly
afterwards a shivering came on, and lie was obliged to be
put to bed and bled. The best medical aid was administered,
and the most rigid attention paid to his case; but in spite of
all, the symptoms daily became worse, and on Friday evening
he died. 'We recollect a paragraph which appeared lately in
the papers, attributing the deaths of seventi men near Lon-
don, to the cause mentioned here; and if on examination
the wood should be found to possess deleterious quali-
ties, we trust that the use of it will be discontinued. Since writ.
big the above, it is said that Rawlins, a shipwright, living at
New Passage, and who had slightly scratched himself, is dead,
and that another, residing at Torpoint, is at the point of death,
from a similar cause.—(Flindeit's Western Luminary.)