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a man dying of scurvy. Some doubt had been thrown upon the presumed nature of this clot and the character of its vessels by Mr Travers, in his recent work on Inflammation. A fresh example of a similar coagulum, injected by Mr Bush, of the Dreadnought Hospital Ship, gave the author an opportunity of examining its condition, and of proving its organic station. in the knee-joint of a Lascar, who died of scurvy, Mr Bush found several clots of extravasated blood. Some floated loose in the fluid, others were attached to the synovial membrane of the capsule of the joint. The attached