The siege of Sebastopol has furnished many opportunities for partial hand to hand bayonet contests, in which many have been killed and wounded on all sides, but I do not learn that in any engagements which have taken place regiments advanced against each other in line and really crossed bayonets as a body; although the individual bravery of smaller parties was frequently manifested there, as well as in the war in the Peninsula. LECTURE II. ON INFLAMMATION, MORTIFICATION, ETC. 24. In some very rare cases, an intense, deep-seated inflammation supervenes after some days, almost suddenly and without any obvious cause. The skin is scarcely affected, although the limb--and this complaint has hitherto been observed only in the thigh--is swollen, and exceedingly painful. If relief be not given, these persons die soon, and the parts beneath the fascia lata appear after death softened, stuffed, and gorged with blood, indicating the occurrence of an intense degree of inflammation, only to be overcome by general blood-letting; and especially by incisions made through the fascia from the wound, deep into the parts, so as to relieve them by a considerable loss of blood, and by the removal of any pressure which the fascia might cause on the swollen parts beneath. 25. Erysipelatous inflammation is marked by a rose or yellowish redness, tending in bad constitutions to brown or even to purple, but in all cases terminating by a defined edge on the white surrounding skin. It frequently spreads with great rapidity, so that the limb, and even the whole skin of the body, may be in time affected by it, the redness subsiding and even disappearing in one part, while it extends in another direction. When this inflammation attacks young and otherwise healthful persons of apparently good constitution, it should be treated by emetics, purgatives, and diaphoretics, in the first instance, with, perhaps, in some cases, bleeding. When the habit of body is not supposed to be healthy, bleeding is inadmissible, and stimulating diaphoretics, combined with camphor and ammonia, will be found more beneficial after emetics and purgatives; these remedies may in turn be followed by quinine and the mineral acids, with the infusion and tincture of bark. Little reliance can be placed on large doses of cinchona in powder; they nauseate and therefore distress.