STAGGERS. 311 



Gibson, which is in fact furnishing the 

 whole advanced by his successors ; who, 

 without exception, generously transmitted 

 his ideas, and informations, forgetting (or 

 omitting) to elucidate the subject with any 

 brilliant observations of theirown. '' APO- 

 '' PLEXY (says he) is usually defined a pri- 

 '' vation of sense and motion, excepting only 

 ^^ a languid one in the heart and breast, and 

 '' this either proceeds from a cause without 

 " the vessels, viz. when the blood or any 

 '' other fluid liappens to break out of some 

 '' vessel within the brain, or when there hap- 

 " pens to be preternatural bones or tumouis 

 *' bred and contained within the skull, or 

 *^ any other extraneous matter that may, in 

 *^ any sort, press upon the soft substance of 

 '' the brain, causing those deadly disorders* 

 '^ But this is a specie's that is incurable, and, 

 " for the most part, seizes suddenly, without 

 /^ any foregoing tokens or warnings. Thus., 

 '* in an apoplexy sense and motion are in 

 " a manner quite lost, because of the pres- 

 '' sure that is made upon the origin of all the 

 '' nerves that arise from the head : but, in 

 " a VERTIGO, objects that are at rest appear 

 *' as if they were turning round, and by that 

 '*. means occasion any creature to reel and 



