462 ~ Mifcellaneous Obfervations on 
would not be perfuaded to attempt to get down’ 
any liquid. He died the fame evening. 
2d. A woman was feized with a pain in her 
arm, attended with a violent tremor of the 
whole body. On the third day the pain ceafed, 
but the trembling continued. She experienced a 
fenfe of fuffocation about the breaft. If wine, 
water, or broth were prefented to her, fhe fell 
into convulfions, and even faintings. She was 
able to fwallow folids with perfe& eafe. The 
faculties of fenfe. and reafon remained unim-: 
paired.* Her difpofition was mild, and her 
converfation tranquil. She ere on the — 
day of the difeafe. | 
gd. A young woman was alarmed at feeing 
a combat with fwords: fhe had all the violent 
fymptoms of Hyfteria, with the dread of liquids’ 
fuperadded. Indeed, the fhock appears to have: 
been fo violent, as greatly to injure the fenfo~ 
rium; for fhe was highly delirious, intra¢table,: 
and feverifh. She died on the fifth day of the’ 
difeafe. . A 
4th. A hufbandman, 27 years of age, after 
his ufual labour of the day, complained of a. 
pain in his arm. On the eighth day of this 
complaint, 
* « Si vinum, aqua aut jufculum propinetur, convellitur 
“ et deficit: ova ac panem probe fumat: facultates prin- 
 cipes ac fentientes valde conftant,”, &c, 
Marcer, Donat, &é, v2, 
