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SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION T HE cases of the deaths of inebriates by internal fires kindled spontaneously have become so numerous and so incontrovertible t_hat I suppose no person of informa– tion will question it. Dr. Peter Scholfield of Upper Canada tells us of "a young man about twenty-five years of age. He had been an habitual drunkard for many years: I saw him about nine o'clock in the evening on which it happened; he was then, as usually, not drunk but full of liquor; about eleven o'clock the same evening I was called to see him.