text:  and that it can be safely applied to a human being labouring under hydrophobia!" Now this inference with all due deference to Mr Waterton appears to partake not a little of the _non sequitur_; and unless the _modus operandi_ by which relief is to be obtained during the suspension of vitality thus produced is more clearly explained we doubt whether many applications will be made for "the scientific assistance of Mr Gibson of the General Hospital at Nottingham to give the sufferer a chance of saving his life by the supposed though yet untried efficacy of the Wourali poison which worst come to the worst would by its sedative qualities render death calm and composed and free from pain