1811.) 
other anxiety about his health than that 
he may improve it to the best adyan- 
tage. 
- A remarkable case has recently oc- 
curred under the notice of the Reporter, 
which strikingly exemplifies the’ connec- 
tion and affinity which may exist between 
~ what are called bilious affections, and 
_ those which more peculiarly belong to 
the nervous system. The patient re- 
ferred to, had, in consequénce of a severe 
aga deprivation, been led into ha- 
bits of insidious solace, which, for up- 
_ wards of two years, seemed to act only 
upon the liver, producing, at nearly re- 
lar intervals of ten days, vomiting of 
hile, which was occasionally attended by 
a species of diarrhoea, that assimilated 
the disorder to the character of cholera. 
For the considerable period above-men- 
tioned, his only complaint was what, in 
popular and fashionable language, is de- 
nominated *‘ The Bile.” After the lapse, 
jowever, of nearly two years and a half 
_ from the commencement of his career 
Deaeon: indulgence, he was surprised, 
without any precautionary or prefatory 
» aitimation, by’a seizure which paralysed 
one-half of his body, dividing it Jongi- 
tudinally into two equal sections,, the 
_ ®ne dead to all the purposes of sensation 
ing all the functions and privileges of 
“vitality, although in some measure, of 
course, clogged and impeded by the im- 
potent and deceased half to which it was 
uyited. It is now mure than three 
years since he has remained in this 
_ melancholy state; at least, during that 
_ time, he has experienced no important 
or permanent melioration, or any evi- 
_ dent tendency towards the recovery of 
his corporeal powers. His mind also 
_ -$eems to have shared in the paralysis. 
_ ‘This is more particularly evident in the 
- ’ 
by SPAIN, 
E following manifesto of the Corte 
~*R General and Extraordinary to the 
vy anish nation, explains the present 
_ Wiews, policy, and feelings, of that peo- 
 Sranitaaps!—If the Cortes Extraordi- 
nary, assembled by your free and deliberate 
ice, and which has been installed solemn- 
yin the royal Isle of Leon, has not before 
‘day regularly addressed you, it was 
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.6r voluntary motion, the other retain-— 
169 
lapses of his recollection. His memory 
has been maimed by the same blow 
which, disabled one side of his body, 
His remembrance of things does not ap- 
pear to be much impaired, but it. is 
surprisingly so with regard to. the denor 
minations of persons or of places. Whilst 
with unaffected cordiality he is shaking 
hands with an intimate friend, he often 
has forgotten his name. Upon enquiry 
it appeared that the pernicious habits of 
the unfortunate patient were still per- 
sisted in, which suiliciendy accounted 
for the unbroken protyaction of bis dis- 
order. In this case nothing can be more 
evident, than that the bilious, in the 
first instance, and the neryous complaint, 
which succeeded, both originated from 
one source; which may give a hint to 
those who are much troubled with the 
bile, especially when it has been occa 
sioned ‘by the same means as in the 
instance just stated, that they may be 
at no great distance, wiiless they season- 
ably reform their diet, from a paralytic 
seizure. Pavalytic seizures, there can 
be little deubt, are more common now 
than they were formerly ; probably owing 
toa more luxurious and effeminate mode 
of living having been in modern times 
tore generally adopted, ‘The ¢irenm- 
stances and symptoms which often, for a 
long tioie before the actual attack of palsy, 
precede and threaten iis approach, are 
surprisingly similar to thase which were 
detailed in the Report of the last month, 
as the avant couriers of an epileptic 
paroxysma, Uappy are they who in either 
case have discernment to decipher, and 
resolution practically to apply, the cha- 
racters of menace, before it be too late 
to avert the evil which they forebode ! 
J. Resp. 
Grenville-street, Brunswick-squarey 
February 22, 1811. 
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from the conviction it felt that its cliatacher 
and object should manifest themselves to 
you by its provident, just} and necessarys 
decrees and declarations, rather than: by 
studied professions and declaratiogs. To acty 
and not to profess, was its sacred duty, apply- 
ing itsclf with undivided heart and hand to 
the regeneration and well-being of the state. 
The Congress declaring and acknowledging 
the sovereignty of the nation, solemply 
éwearing in’ the name of all vhe peopleyto 
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