relative to Pneimmllc Medicine. 2'19 



« To Mr. Hill. 



*' SIR, 



*^ I tan with pleasure inform you, that my son, Cliarles 

 Wayte Dayre, has, by the blessing of God, with your kind 

 attention to him, and the help of vital air, received a very 

 great cure from his fits, deafness, and nervous complaints, 

 which had long affected him ; and they increased on him so 

 fast, that, when he applied to you, he h^d from sixteen to 

 twenty a day. He could not be left at any time, even a 

 quarter of an hour in a day. He has not had a fit these 

 eighteen months, or near two years. 

 *' I am, sir, 

 *' Your greatly obliged humble servant, 



" Charles Dare." 



Olservations on this Case hy Mr. Hill. 



However the general appearance of this young man may 

 have been as to strength, some peculiarity of habit, as irri- 

 tability of stomach and bowels, most likely had existed, and 

 was a predisposing cause of the complaint. Be this as it 

 rnay, any sadden surprise or misfortune will almost always 

 produce some determination of blood to the head, more or 

 less violent, in the strongest frame. In this case, as in 

 many others, it laid the foundation of very serious mischief. 

 In length of time it exhausted the nervous energy ; and the 

 powers of life, depending on an equable circulation, were 

 reduced to extreme debility. Under these circumstances no 

 remedy, one short instance excepted, arrested the progress 

 of the disease, still less gave hopes of a recovery. The suc- 

 cess in this case was beyond my expectation ; for I was ap- 

 prehensive that the several organs of sense, as the eyes and 

 cars, were become paralytic from some organic defect in the 

 brain, owing to the long continuance, violence, and fre- 

 quency of the attacks. Contrary to my conjecture, how- 

 ever, the patient was relieved much in the same manner as 

 the subject of the preceding case ; and, as the sime conse- 

 quences foUov.cd, nearly the game reasoning applies to both; 



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