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Show it does not instantaneously come and go, as I have shewn phrenzy to do. I should, indeed, imav gine that this whole cause, so far as depends on evidence from delirium, spasm, convulsions, stupor, and the like, might be dismissed in a single sentence or two. In the bodies (f patients who have safered under the utmost violence ofsuch symptomsfor a long time, no sign (j'past or present in‘lammation in the head has on the suddenness of the observed effects. 14.7 The bIOOd- vessels seem evidently sometimes to be seized and hurried along in the first gust of the whirl~ wind; sometimes to escape it for a time only; and sometimes altogether. Hence the signs of synchronous or supervening inflammation in different organs in different cases; and the total absence of such signs in some. I am indebted to Dr. Cox of Fish-ponds near gl thercfore no indications ofinflanzmation there. Let Bristol, for two letters in answer to queries, principally respecting the temperature of the la; me not, however, be misconceived as asserting insane, which he has obligingly taken great pains to ascertain. ll, that lunatics or epileptics never die with the brain inflamed-The sudden rise of violent symptoms in fever has suggested to some oi our observers the term explosion. Correspond‘ ing terms in other languages have been applied to the same phaenomena. nearly to which my own heat raised it at the U" C l) S ? t" O; most careful examination, been detected; they are mu g Nervous diseases July lst, 1807, he says : "In unfortunate objects, whose mental indispo- sition has gradually sunk to a state of idiotism (of whom I have a grOUp), a thermometer of very nice sensibility stood at the point very In others in an opposite state, who share, at least in an equal degree, this explosive same time. disposition. And it has led to the use of 11 pe- where gay and animated, and in one, an irritable culiar phraseology-from the poetic days, when gods or devils were imagined to take forcible delicate female, who was never still, talking in- our soberer times, in which patient physical investigation has caught sight of a natural cessantly and making all kinds of pantomimic gesticulations, I could perceive no difference : but in a few, who were under strong Coercion in the horizontal position, with the head much elevated, whose face was red and the vessels turgid, the difference of heat in the upper and power, whose rapid fluctuations and refluctua- lower parts of the body was very obvious, va- tions, whose conjunctions rying 10, 12, and even 15 degrees: and it is a are altogether adequate to the violence and sudden- curious fact that the degree of heat about the head L 2 possession of the frame, and to throw it into przuternatural agitations, in defiance of its ordinary regulating inmate, the soul, down to oppositions ...d‘g " 1. -W‘WJ' a-' -r.-""l.."\ and «away-n rm w... can-wa-oug-r the sensorz‘al functions. ‘eidcnce from -'.~. ... m newt-‘wat 14.6 wom Ala |