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Show Changes in the state of intellect. awakened of himself, asking for something to trast between the grief expressed in your coun- drink. During the second exacerbation after midnight, he was more lethargic, and if tenances, and the hopes I uttered of a speedy roused with some difficulty, fell asleep again with -varie-ty of delirious fancies. Towards morning he was much occupied about a patient, my state and brought me out of my confusion to perfect clearness." He called for a book which he supposed contained a prescription applicable to his case; had various papers and letters laid upon his bed which he arranged; 154. whom he had to treat with in his own house, for which he desired my aid. At an early hour, he fell asleep while the blisters were dressed. 1When the remission began, he slept and rambled by turns. Several persons of his family with myself were sitting round his bed, when his only cliild, of whom he was particularly fond, came in to enquire how he found himself. " Why," said be, "my dear G. I am not what can be " called well, but I hope to be so soon, as I get "" better from hour to hour." To see the great physician totally misapprehend his own danger, together with the idea of the speedy se« paration of an affectionate father'from his favourite child, so much overpowered the byestanders that they bu rst into tears, one after ano- ther leaving the bedside. This scene so strongly impressed the patient that he instantly recol- 15.3 amendment, roused me to a consideration of charged those about him with different com- missions and conversed separately with each member of his family. Of his approaching dissolution he spoke with perfect composure. To one of his pupils, who lamented his illness, he replied, " Better die ofa nervous fever than of consumption. I do not fear death, being persuaded of the eternal duration of every power in nature."--From this time forward there was little interval from torpor and delirium; and though Dr. Reil (p. 46) remarks that next day, there came on a dimness of the eyes with a red sufiiision of the aduata and turgescence of its vessels, which increased after every exacerbation, we have seen how free the my real situation-I am labouring under an ex- head proved from all traces ofinflammation. Fever-patients can often be roused out of their delirium for a time sufficient to give rational answers. If the brain had been acutely inv flamed for a number of days, as it must have been in cases like those of Dr. Chardel, (p. 98) tremely dangerous nervous fever. The con- such momentary resuscitation of intellect could trast scarcely lected himself and became perfectly conscious of his situation. He immediately called me back and said, " My friend, you, I see, with my other medical attendants conceal from me 3 mm M09 |
