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IN a cause tried in the Court of Queen's Bench, the plaintiff being a
widow, and the defendants two medical men who had treated her for
delirium tremens, and put her under restraint as a lunatic, witnesses
were called on the part of the plaintiff to prove that she was not
addicted to drinking. The last witness called by Mr. Montagu Chambers,
the leading counsel on the part of the plaintiff, was Dr. Tunstal, who
closed his evidence by describing a case of delirium tremens treated
by him, in which the patient recovered in a single night. It was,
said the witness, a case of gradual drinking, sipping all day, from
morning till night. These words were scarcely uttered, than Mr.
Chambers, turning to the Bench, said, My lord, that is my case.

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