DIED
On Monday, Mr Charles Cave, surgeon, of Petersfield; the circumstances of his death must excite respect for his memory, much sympathy for his loss, as well as caution to the profession. On the Saturday se'nnight previous to his death, a sea-faring man, who had been ill for a few days preceeding, was attacked, whilst at Petersfield, with a violent inflammation on the lungs; and after being attended several times during the day by Messrs Cave and Whicher, he died the next morning. The surgeons being of various opinions as to the real cause of his death, agreed to open the body, which they did on Monday morning, and found the lungs in a complete state of putrefaction. They afterwards sewed up the body, in doing which they pricked their fingers; and, in the evening, both of them were seized with violent pains in the arm, which soon extended to nearly the whole of the body. Mr Cave, after enduring the most excruciating pains, died on the following Monday. Mr Whicher is still alive, though suffering extreme pain; but his hand and arm have been opened by several of the most skilful surgeons of the neighbourhood, and from the metropolis, and a discharge being oobtained from the wounds, it is hoped his life will be saved.