Her left arm was lying across her abdomen at the time, the points of the fingers resting on the crests of the ilium.

There was a rent in the dress at the top of the shoulder, and a red line half an inch wide running from thence along the inside of the arm and fore-arm.

In some places there was complete vesication, and on its palmer surface the hand lying on the abdomen was completely denuded.

The abdomen, for a space of four inches in length and eight inches in breadth, was also blistered.

The fluid then passed from the fingers to the crest of the ilium, and down the outside of the leg, bursting open the shoes, and passing then through the floor.