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to the situations of their residences; many ofwhom, after hours of languor, distress, and pain,are now startled into being from their pittance ofmerciful unconsciousness, by the outrageous butfashionable violence, the storm of knocking raisedat the door of the wretched patient's residence, byone of Death's subordinate agents, who dropsfrom the fore or aft of the doctor's chariot, andhaving done all this wanton and inhuman mis-chief, throws open the door for the descent, andthen the introduction of that which is to follow.Thus it is manifest that Death may be detectedin the personification of an outside or an insidepassenger; on the box or in the chariot.

The question may be asked,—what place doesnot Death occupy,—what person of the drama canhe not assume and fill? We have seen him blind-ing the eyes of physicians and their patients, andconverting medicines into poisons. We may alsotrace this sly and rapacious fellow more insi-diously introducing poisons into the wholesomenutiiment of life, into our viands and our drinks.For the former, gaze upon that alarming row of