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XLVI. Tuenty-elglith ComDii/u'/cufion on Viicinnallc Mcd'i- 

 ci/te, sent bij Dr. Thornton, yiuw JSTr. Hill, Surgeon. 



Case of Ep'ilep'iij cured hj J^ilal Air. 



V-/HAKLES Wayte Dare, SOU of Mr. Dare, Dowgate Hill, 

 is a young man who appeartd strong and iK-althv until 

 eleven years of age. At that period, btmg very abruptly 

 informed that his father's house was on fire, the shock 

 affected him so much as to throw him into an epileptic 

 fit. From this time the paroxysms failed not to return 

 X'very three or four weeks; and though, during the course 

 •of some years, the number of his fits did not nmch in- 

 crease, his bodily strength and mental faculties were con- 

 siderably impaired. Several medical men were consulted on 

 the first attack, but the remedies prescribed by thcni gave 

 little or no relief. On his becoming deaf in one car, and 

 his eyesight failing him, whatever he learned at the Blue- 

 colt School was forgotten, owing to the violence of the fits. 

 His parents, therefore, thought it advisable to take him home. 

 At length, having received some benefit from medical aid, 

 his father placed him on trial at Mr. Davison's, in Sise- 

 lane ; but a fright soon bringing hack all his former disor- 

 ders, he was obliged to return again to his family. His fits 

 were now exceedingly violent, and their frequency increased 

 to a considerable number in twenty -four hours. In conse- 

 quence of tills he became more deaf than ever, his vision 

 weaker, and his intellects so materially injured that it was 

 impossible to leave him alone, for fear he should either fall 

 into the fire, or nieet with some other calamitous accident. 

 In this truly deplorable state he v.'as put under my care early 

 in March 1796. The niorning prcvlcnis to my seeing him, 

 his fits had been so particularly violent as to exhaust him 

 greatly, and his pulse beat above one hundred in a minute. 

 It was not without infinite dlHlculty that I could cither per- 

 suade him, or make hiui comprehend in what manner, to 

 inhale vital air from n)y apparatus ; aiul the general torpor 

 of his miiid, extreme debility of body, and deafness, gave 

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