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Show Analogical Considerations. ‘28 125,; Analogieal Considerations. dreams, waking illusions, delirium of all de- with emetic tartar which was forced into it when 1 first saw him. The doing it threw him into a state of insensibility which lasted for several minutes, but he swallowed the fluid-~ the cicatrix of the wound did not inflame or the face exhibit any unnatural appearancc-~ I examined the body within twelve hours after death. There was no appearance of inflamma- tion in the fauces, trachea, oesophagus or sto- nach. There was no morbid appearance in the grees, short perhaps of violent phrenzy: when the eye at one time cannot hear the light, at another, grows dim or loses its power: when a breath of the softest air is intolerable and the skin shrinks even under the footsteps of a fly; when consciousness of this high susceptibility of suffering keeps the soul incessantly stretched upon the rack of panic apprehension ; when the scene, opening with lassitude, restlessness, anxiety, dejection, is closed by tetanic spasms or by convulsions growing by degrees strong ty as great as in feveri" i * In facieipsins, quamvis, valetudine adhuc sans, satis phlegmatica ac stupida, nunc eloquentissimi varii gestus sum‘ mae desperationis et horroris sese monstrabant-Dis. vi! p. 44. Puer - - - - interno suo statu occupatus videbatur, in illis quoque temporis momentis, in quibus tranquillior erat (ib. 42.) Saepius ambas manus fronti admovebat, ac si lucem ab oculis arcerc vellet : muscarum attactum nunc intolerabilem sentiebat, p. 44. subito ex lecto se prorupit,januam vehe- Such is the diversity of internal changes wrought by this disease. "/126er it afiect t/Ie sensorial/hnctions, will, I suppose, hardly be made quid vidisset, sagitta celerius in lectum iterum se conjecit, a question, when it at once reverses, the charac- a footstep in the gallery, he begged, in the most piteous ter of the physiognomy: when we recognize accents, to be protected from harm. moirs, iv.) - - - faciem linteis tegens, p. 41.-Lindsay was alarmed to a degree of distraction at being left alone. He examined every object with a timid suspicious eye. Upon the least noise of K dreams, i‘ Let no one suspect menter aperuit, subito iterum gradum stitit ct, quasi immane manner, concentration of thought, terrifying l g enough to toss the patient out of bed: these symptoms all succeeding each other with rapidio head or chest." alienation of mind under every form of hurried «w water to drink. He snatched at the cup with eagerness but directly as he put it towards his mouth, threw it away and was extremely agitated-towards evening he was almost constantly convuised and insensible to every thing that was done to him. The saliva flowed from his mouth in such quantity as to wet the sheets and bed-his strength decreased after each fit, and at half past one A. M. of the 14th, he died, being sixty hours from the time ofhis first re- ' fusing l'ood, during which time he took nothing in his month, except a table-spoonful of water (Manchester Me"10‘ t \ IN) M098? |