when rising to the
surface. By personal observation this man stated that he believed that
if he had struck a hard substance his death would have been painless,
as he was sure that he was entirely insensible during the fall.

A writer in the Pall Mall Gazette, in speaking of the accidents which
had happened in connection with the Forth Bridge, tells of a man who
trusted himself to work at the height of 120 feet above the waters of
the Firth, simply grasping a rope. His hands became numb with cold, his
grasp relaxed, and he fell backward down into the water, but was
brought out alive. In another instance a spanner fell a distance of 300
feet, knocked off a man's cap, and broke its way through a four-inch
plank. Again, another spanner fell from a great height, actually
tearing off a man's clothes, from his waistcoat to his ankle, but
leaving him uninjured. On another occasion a staging with a number of
workmen thereon gave way. Two of the men were killed outright by
striking some portion of the work in their descent; two others fell
clear of the girders, and were rescued from the Firth little worse for
their great fall.

Resistance of Children to Injuries.--It is a remarkable fact that young
children, whose bones, cartilages, and tissues are remarkably elastic,
are sometimes able to sustain the passage over their bodies of vehicles
of great weight without apparent injury. There is a record early in
this century of a child of five who was run over across the epigastrium
by a heavy two-wheeled cart, but recovered without any bad symptoms.
The treatment in this case is quite interesting, and was as follows:
venesection to faintness, castor oil in infusion of senna until there
was a free evacuation of the bowels, 12 leeches to the abdomen and
spine, and a saline mixture every two hours! Such depleting
therapeutics would in themselves seem almost sufficient to provoke a
fatal issue, and were given in good faith as the means of effecting a
recovery in such a case. In a similar instances a wagon weighing 1200
pounds passed over a child of five, with no apparent injury other than
a bruise near the ear made by the wheel.

Infant-vitality is sometimes quite remarkable, a newly-born child
sometimes surviving extreme exposure and major injuries. There was a
remarkable instance of this kind brought to light in the Mullings vs.
Mullings divorce-case, recorded in The Lancet. It appeared that Mrs.
Mullings, a few hours after her confi