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A post-mortem examination report suggests Patrick Murphy's death was caused by a virulent morbid poison contracted from skinning a diseased sheep, a novel transmission route.

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On opening the abdomen, I found the liver considerably darker than natural, and in a few places gangrenous; …

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New South Wales Government Gazette, No. 29, 13 March 1851.