■^4 '^ hard driniitig. "July 1 8. 



" The appetite no\v totally fails, but an insatiable thirst 

 continues, and if it be not supplied with an exhilarating 

 cordial, the vital spirits instantly flag, and such horrors 

 take place as are dreadful even to a bye-stander ; the poor vic- 

 tim is so deprefsed, as to fancy a thousand imaginary evils j 

 he expects momentarily to expire, and starts up suddenly 

 fcom his seat j walks wildly about the room j breathes 

 fhort, and seems to straggle for breath ; if these horrors 

 seize him in bed, when waking from slumber, he springs 

 up like an elastic body, with a sense of suffocation, and 

 the horrors of frightful objects around him j at the same 

 time the pain of the stomach continues and augments 5 

 the sight of wholesome plain food gives disgust instead 

 of appetite ; drink is his cry j or if hunger is excited, 

 it is after high-seasoned, salt, or acrid nourifliment. 



" At this time, if a dropsy, or fatal jaundice, do not 

 terminate existence, the legs (brink, are swarthy coloured 

 like the rest of the body, and sometimes purple spots ap- 

 pear and disappear for many months j the extremities feel 

 sore to the touch, and upon scratching them, exude 

 blood •, the thighs likewise flirink j but the body, and 

 particularly about the region of the liver, enlarges, and the 

 hardnefs of the liver may be frequently traced : The face 

 is nearly copper-coloured, is emaciated, sometimes with 

 little suppurations, which dry and turn scaly \ the breath 

 smells like rotten apples, and the morbus niger, or vomitings 

 of a fluid like that of coffee-grounds, snatch the patient 

 from complicated misery. Sometimes a purging, or 

 bloody discharge, hasten the catastrophe. 



" The third train of symptoms to be described, is not 

 confined to age or sex, but is in general more frequently 

 the attendant of the female sex. 



" The persons liable to the symptoms, have been those 

 of delicate habits, who have endeavoured to overcome the 



