Note 5 — ERRATA.

This remark we found to be particularly applicable to the last stages of the disease. In the beginning of the season, one case occurred that gave rise to much conversation in the army. From having come into contact with a case of plague, a Lascar, in the department of the commissary of cattle, was sent into the observation-room of the pest-house of Rosetta; he was brought there much against his will, and contrived to make his escape from it, on the evening of the day on which he was admitted, though fired at by the dragoon-centries placed round the establishment. Ineffectual search was made for him every where in the neighbourhood of Rosetta, and we could hear nothing of him for about five weeks, when he was discovered at Boulac. On being brought down to Rosetta, I examined him with Mr Guild, the surgeon of his corps. We found him then well; but certainly he had had the disease, for we saw an axillary bubo not quite healed. He told us, that he remained concealed for a great part of the time among the rushes by the side of the river. On mentioning this case to Dr Currie, of Liverpool, I think he said, he had heard of some similar cases.