, . Wardeh'i Letters on Napoleon. s(ff 



^TiA'ah'J *f his own people were indis- medicine xva^ retarn^9 by the stomxch 

 pf»»ed>— **0 Weid him, bleed him! To for two minutes. In xWe course of th^fefe 

 the powerful lancet with him: that's the days the patient lost tvfteen pouiids rif 



infallible remedy." He had, however, blood; when the pulse, thoiigh Mill fvlf 



._ ST. J T..-_ wa, reduced to 8? b^etifs. Nothing 



solid remained on his stomach for ihrefe 



seen the good effects on Madame Ber- 

 trafid. That lady was attacked wiih art 

 inflammatory fever, when she submitted 

 to lose two pounds of blood, as well as lo 

 abstain from wine and all animal food: 

 blit thte' Sangrado system elTectcd her 



monihs, nevertheiebs the man recovered. 

 This you will say was a case in point'; 

 and enough tn make any one a convert 

 to the application of the lancer. He de- 



cure; and confirmed the proselytism of scribed to me a pulmonic complaint with 



fifei"<WiVperor to the practice. "hich he was affecte<l on his return frorti 



*' Of his own state of health he has sjood Egypt; and asked me what treatment I 



fitasort to boast: and when it is consi- shouki have adapted in his cast. "Would 



If^red to how many various climates he .V^u have done as Corvisart did? he 



Kii exposed himself, and what a succes- blistered me twice." I replied that 



Sfon of toil he has undei{»one durin;; the most probably, I should have bled pre- 



laSt twenty-five years, the state of health vious to the application of a blister, a^, in 



he has enjoyed, and still enjoys, is alto- thecomaiencement of pectoral affections 



[{ether astonishing. — He declares that he 

 htts b^n but twice, thoughout his life, in 

 iilch a' state as to demand metlicnl aid. 

 He took a dose of physic for the first 

 complaint; and tiie second, bein;; a 

 fMiltnonio affection, required a blister. 

 Mr. O'Meara, his own surgettrr, speak* 

 with admiration of his temperament, and 

 •ays, that his pulse never exceeds siicry- 

 trifO. His own spontaneous account of 



they are generally attended with inflam- 

 miition. The conversation afforded me; 

 as I thought, rather a fair opporttinity of 

 asking him, if his sleep was generally 

 sound; I felt at the time, that it was aft 

 adveniuroirt question; nor would it have 

 surpriztd me, if he had turned tiway 

 without giving me an answer; hut, with a 

 look more expressive of sorrow than dis- 

 pleasure, he replied, " No;— from my 



himself is, that he is very passionate; cradle, I have been an inditFerentsieeperi" 

 but that the violence of his dispourfion duroc and lasnes. - ' 



soon subsides, nut only into tranquiltiiy; Having induced you, perhaps, to sobL 



but into coldness and indifference. — I pose that Napoleon was susceptible <*f 



have never heard that, in speaking of love, t shall introduce Madame Ber- 



his constitution and nhcnmmon state of trand to perstiade yoU that heis not with^^ 



heaith, hie evef hinted at the advances of out a capacity for friendship.— She re^ 



age, or calculated the probabilities of hi$ lated, in a very impressive manner to usl 



enjoying lengrh of life. the last interview with Duroc, Dtike i0f 



— I must beg leave to return to the Frieiili, and Ins ai51icied sftverei»n, '1 

 •ubjectof blood-letting, as a conversation That officer, who, as it will apptiaift 



took ptac^ which had escaped me, and is stood high in his master's regard and coi^ 



an additional proof of his curiosity or fideiice, was struck by a cannon ballas 



*nxieiy, or perhaps both of them, re- be was reconnoitring the position for ti 



ipecting it. — He called me to him on nitht encampment of the anil r, aiwl^Mi 



the <iuarter-deck, and asked the following botvels fell t(» the ground ; when helriiil 



professional questions s — "Can a person, the extraordinary resolution to colletll 



labouring under a tropical disease, re- and replace them with- his own h^tidfe on 



qaking what you cali the free use of the the spot. In this hopeless state he was 



lancer, promise himself an e/jii;d share of removed to a neighhonrin;; C>Jlt»ffe' 



heahi), eighteen mouths after, as he had where he survived twcnty^four hours,' A 



before the system of depletion?" niorti'fii.ation soon took place, and a very 



*» How long are the vessels filling after offensive smell bfgan to issue from hii 



being ptfrtially emptied of blood; and body, wiiich continued to increase." 



whsA quantity can the human body lose After he h.idbeen Eomctrme in this State' 



without producing death?" — After rea- tlie Emperor came to visit and cinisole 



soning for some time oti the subject of him. The dying man, after expiessini 



tfaetetjuestious, I surprized him with the his arknowledgmentg to liis master fdf 



aii^uuiit of a very extraordinarycase then this gracious act of kindness, which ha 



nbjwEt to iny treatment.. -A seaman accompanieil with seiitiineuts of the ut* 



*af put on th« sick list; the disease, an in"»t '"yalty ami devotion, r«cohimcnde<i 



rniliiumiatiou of the stomach. On the his wife and daughter to the iintjeriai 



«acAi<ii flay the pulse beat 150 in the protection; and thcu curreatfid f(i(u ja 



iuMat(>and not an article of food ur of depart, lest tlue effluvia proceeding fmui 



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