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Show L12 Evidence from the sensorial functions. looking for a mustard seed in the .dark." In its excitation and disappearance it often seems verv unlike the process of intlamma~ tion. This is clearly exhibited in various examples. A girl, 7-another, 8, eat some of the morellus furiosus,---all the limbs became agiw tated by weak convulsive movements-the gestures were audacious, the look expressed fury; immoderate sardonic laughter succeeded bitter tears. They stammered out saucy ex- pressions, and tried to bite and tear every thing 4350w imir that fell in their way-the sphincters were relaxed, the inferior extremities palsied ;--tl1.is state of phrenzy lasted 94 hours-an emetic brought up the morel as fresh as when it was swallowed. I-Ialfan hour after the operation they were at play and felt no subsequent inv convenience. A man, named Le Roux, reduced by an anomalous intermittent, walked in very short shoes from Pacy to Vernon. He had aferwards burning heat in each great toe. This in eight. days mounted to his loins and arms, then fixed in the feet, particularly affecting the soles. ()n being bled and keeping his feet in a fowl, opened alive, for 7 hours, a most violent phrenzy came on. He afterwards fell into stupor with tremors and convulsions; and in his frequent paroxyms ofheat in the feet, he committed a thousand extruvagancies, as heating first his parents 14:- parents, then himself, crying, swearing, forcing open the door and running through the fields-- scratching the soles of his feet or rubbing them hard at the coming on of the heats, calmed the phrenzy (Alliet ap. Vtmdermonde, xiii. 211.) The following is another example, still more unfavourable to the opinion that delirium is any indication of inflammation in the head. " An apprentice boy, between 13 and 14, on the morning ofJune I4, 1788, began on a sudden to talk in a very strange and wild wa". The parents at first supposed him in jest. As however he not only went on, but grew worse and worse, they tried to stop him first by threats and afterwards by blows. But all was in vain. By noon he was in a compleat phrenzy and l was hastily called. On hearing my name, he rushed out ofthe hands of those who held him, with an intention to thrust me out at the door with much abusive language. He was soon seized again but would not hear me to be pre- sent; he cried, foamed, stamped and tore till I went away. As little could he endure his father in the room. I enquired to no purpose into the cause of this sudden seizure. There was no recollection of his having taken a. poisonous'herb or any thing suspicious-neither was be supposed to have been bitten by a mad dog or to have met with any particular shock. I therefore provisionally ordered an anodyne and won M |