A similar appearance around the person, and in the room, of a man who fell a sacrifice to lingering disease in a remote district of the south-west of Ireland, is recorded. All the witnesses agree in having seen the light; many, however, came to the conclusion that it was caused by supernatural agency, and a proof of miraculous interposition, and even evidence of Divine favour. Considerable excitement was occasioned in the south of Ireland by the following case, related by Dr. D. Donavan, in the _Dublin Medical Press_, Jan. 15, 1840:--“I was sent for,” the Doctor says, “in December, 1828, to see Harrington. He had been under the care of my predecessor, and had been entered in the dispensary book as a phthisical patient; and, on reference to my note-book, I find that the stethoscopic and other indications of phthisis were indubitable. He was under my care for about five years; during which time, strange to say, the symptoms continued stationary; and I had discontinued my attendance for about two years, when the report became general, that mysterious lights were every night seen in his cabin. The subject attracted a great deal of attention; and, like everything else in Ireland, at once assumed a sectarian complexion; some attributing the light to the miraculous interference of Heaven; others, to the practice of the black art. Not regarding these views as affording an explanation of the mystery, I determined to subject the matter to the ordeal of my own senses; and, for this purpose, visited the cabin for fourteen nights; and on three nights, only, did I witness anything unusual. Once I perceived a luminous fog, resembling the aurora borealis, and twice I saw the scintillations, like the sparkling phosphorescence sometimes exhibited by the sea infusoria. From the close scrutiny I made, I can, with certainty, say, that no imposition was either employed or attempted. How are these appearances to be accounted for? In answering this question, I would observe, that they are never seen but in cases of extensive disease, and when considerable alteration of structure has taken place. Processes analogous to decomposition are witnessed in the human subject while the living principle remains.”