220 
1771. 
November. 
A JOURNEY TO THE 
healthy look afterwards, and at times feemed 
troubled with a nervous complaint. It may be 
added, that he had been formerly of a remarka- — 
ble lively difpofition; but after his laft illnefs he _ 
always appeared thoughtful, fometimes gloomy, | 
and, in faét, the diforder feeméd to have changed — 
his whole nature ; for before that dreadful para- | 
lytic ftroke, he was diftinguifhed for his good- 
nature and benevolent difpofition ; was entirely _| 
free from every appearance of avarice; and the | 
whole of his wifhes feemed confined within the | 
narrow limits of poflefling as many goods as were | 
abfoiutely neceflary, with his own induftry, to | 
enable him to fupport his family from feafon to | 
feafon; but after this event, he was the moft 
fraGtious, quarrelfome, difcontented, and covet- — 
ous wretch alive. 
Though the ordinary trick of thefe conjurers 
may be eafily detected, and juftly exploded, being | 
no more than the tricks of common jugglers, yet | 
the apparent good effect of their labours on the | 
fick and difeafed is not fo eafily accounted for. | 
Perhaps the implicit confidence placed in them by | 
the fick may, at times, leave the mind fo perfect. | 
ly at reft, as to caufe the diforder to take a favou- 
rable turn; and a few fuccefsful cafes are quite 
fufficient to eftablifh the door’s character and | 
reputation: But how this confideration could | 
operate in the cafe I have juft mentioned Iam at | 
alofs to fay; fuch, however, was the fact, and I | 
leave it to be accounted for by others. 
When 
