324 DISEASES Class III. i. 2. I4 . 



ous, they fay, commit crimes and mortify themfelves without 

 hopes of reward ; and thus become miferable both in this world 

 and the next. Thus Juvenal : 



Cum furor hand dubius, cum fit manifefta phr^nitis, 

 Ut locuples moriaris, egenti vivere fato ! 



The covetous man thought he gave good advice to the 

 fpendthrift, when he faid, " Live like me," who well anfwered 



him, 



Like you, Sir John ? 



" That I can do, when all I have is gone !" 



Pope. 



14. Lethi timor. The fear of death perpetually employs the 

 thoughts of thefe patients : hence they are devifing new medi- 

 cines, and applying to phyficians and quacks without number. 

 It is confounded with hypochondriacs, Clafs I. 2. 3. 9. in pop- 

 ular converfation, but is in reality an infanity. 



A young gentleman, whom I advifed to go abroad as a cure 

 for this difeafe, allured me, that during the three years he was 

 in Italy and France he never palled a quarter of an hour with- 

 out fearing he mould die. But he has now for above twenty 

 years experienced the contrary. 



The fufferers under this malady are generally at once discov- 

 erable by their telling you, amidft an unconnected defcription 

 of their complaints, that they are neverthelefs not afraid of dy- 

 ing. They are alfo eafily led to complain of pains in almofl any 

 part of the body, and are thus foon difcovered. 



Ivi. M. As the maniacal hallucination has generally arifen in 

 early infancy from fome dreadful account of the ftruggles and 

 pain of dying, I have fometimes obferved, that thefe patients 

 have received great coniolation from the inftances I have re- 

 lated to them of people dying without pain. Some of thefe, 

 which I think curious, I (hall concifely relate, as a part of the 

 method of cure. 



Mr. , an elderly gentleman, had fent for me one whole 



day before I could attend him ; on my arrival he faid he was 

 glad to fee me, but that he was now quite well, except that he 

 was weak, but had had a pain in his bowels the day before. He 

 then lay in bed with his legs cold up to the knees, his hands 

 and arms cold, and his puife fcarcely difcernible, and died in 



about fix hours. Mr. , another gentleman about iixly, lay in 



the act of dying, with difficult refpiration like groaning, but in a 

 kind of ftupor or coma vigil, and every ten or twelve minutes, 

 while I fat by him, he waked, looked up, and faid, « who is ic 



groan* 



