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Show 152 Changes in the state of intellect. 153 the patient awoke and spoke in his usual manner, a thing he had been several days unable to action at a fatal expence of power. do, and with the feelings of the friend and hus‘ mental impressions exert all the force of drugs, band exalted. He conversed with great good sense for above an hour with his wife about her and believe the fact of particular importance in future domestic arrangements for he looked forward without fear to his death as a certainty. Nor would it have been for me, who so often see different the treatment of fever, to object to the explanation. That some sensation or medicine may not have operated in this way I can by no means To me he recommended his children with the afl‘irm, for on such a subject who will venture customary reliance upon our friendship, and he had a long and lively conference with a clergy- to be positive P-It might likewise be conceived man. During this whole time his pulse and that part of the brain might recover for a short period from its inflammatory state. In truth, in bad cases of ophthalmia, who has not seen respiration were nearly natural. This unusual vivacity having lasted about three hours, he seemed to fall asleep again composedly. But hue, while the rest retained the sntl‘usion, which the scene soon ended frightfully. Terrible con- had been general; and the recovered parts vulsions, especially of the muscles of the face, speedily inflame again and so on through many variations? And we have full evidence that different parts of the brain may be at the same moment in opposite states during one indispo- came on. All sense seemed vanished and the worthy man departed, after this agony had con- tinued for two days, I had neither firmness nor opportunity to open the body. But from what I have seen after this sort of fever in other subjects, I should not suppose that any mechanical cause whatever could excite this remarka- ble fluctuation in the exertions of the vital parts of the conjunctiva recover their natural sition. ization." llere, had the lucid interval immediately suc- As dissection would have manifestly brought some aid to our judgment here, I feel satisfac- tion in being able, in some measure, to supply the omission. This I can most briefly accomplish by quoting part of Dr. Reil's account of the lucid interval ofDr. Goldhagen, the examin- ation of whose body I have given above (p. 65). Ceedcd the appearance of the friend, it might " In the night of Jan. 5th, the first exacerbation be said that the impression proved too strong a came on before midnight with a sleepiness, out stimulant for the mental organs, calling forth Of which he could be easily roused, and indeed action. awakened power in the different systems of the organ» ,a view MOSS l |