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Show state of intellect. 151 Changes in fire sympathetic suffering during the pain of inflam- mation) with the case of original encephalitis, Changes in the state if intellect. The return of recollection for a short space-- the breaking out of the perfect mind in the in~ tervals of delirium, like that of the full sun terminating in death. That he may the better decide on the present question and observe hereafter with more intelligence the fluctuations of sensorial power, I shall lay before him one or two facts. Dr. Brandis in the work be- amid a succession ofthunder-storms, is a striking fore quoted (p. 158) relates that a friend of his appearance in fever. If we take the attendant lay ill ofa lingering nervous fever. circumstances into consideration, it will not perhaps appear very favourable to the idea of inflammation in the brain. The argument is not offered as demonstrative. For it is often only by discovering what a process is, that you can incontrovertibly shew what it is not. But . when any other organ runs through acute inflammation to death, it does not recover its functions by starts as is sometimes the case with the brain at the extremity of fever. Its modes of feeling vary; and so in proportion does the state of every sympathizing organ; and that of the brain among the rest. We have no instances where an inflamed stomach or intestine resume their digestive powers and Insensibi- lity as usual succeeded to a' painful and irritated state of the nervous system. " I saw the patient about the 12th day. Me, heretofore his most confidential friend, he received without the smallest sign of joy or of sorrow, though he addressed me by my name. In the same manner, though a tender husband and father, he beheld his wife and children without the least token of affection: he desired nothing and eschewed nothing. He soon came not to know the names of those about him; and by the end of the third week lay in a continued fever, senseless, with the nervous system almost dead, muttering constantly to himself without the least reference to surrounding objects, the peristaltic motionjust before they sphacelate, pupils of his eyes much enlarged, as if the light as the brain here reproduces and connects ideas in just force and order. My reader will not confound the case ofa different diseased organ (where the insensibility from supervening mort'ification gives the brain a short relief from its sympathetic ' did not at all affect them; pulse exceedingly quick and small.---At the end of the third week, in the night, the disorder suddenly assumed another form. After a short apparent slumber, the mm M |