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sWut and strong man, she possessed so much sti'ength 

 and activity, when labouring under one of these vio- 

 lent attacks, as to make it impossible for him to hold 

 her, without assistance. 



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The maniacal paroxysms often subsided in syn- 

 cope, and, after recovering from one, of these, she 

 would be quite rational, for a few minutes, declaring 

 that the excruciating pains, under which she laboured, 

 were the sole cause of her other afflictions, and in- 

 treating me to afford her medical aid. I, accordingly, 

 ordered her an anodyne, and left her. But I was 

 soon sent for again. 



I now found her labouring under a fit, which ap- 

 peared to partake both of the nature of hysteria and 

 of syncope. Her countenance was overcast with a 

 death-like paleness ; her eyes, to use a common 

 phrase, were set ; her stertorous breathing indicated 

 danger of suffocation. She soon, however, recovered 

 from this attack, by the aid of a few simple applica- 

 tions. But her pains were as severe as before, and 

 the menstrual discharge in the same state. 



Believing this to be a case of what the illustrious 

 Cullen terms Amcnorrhoea difficilis,! ordered her feet 

 to be bathed in warm water; cloths, wrung out of 

 warm water, to be applied to her abdomen and exter- 

 nal parts of generation ; and left for her a mixture, 

 composed of Tincture of Opium and Assafetida. As 

 her stomach was considerably disordered, chamomile 



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