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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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