3IO STAGGERS, &c. 



tability, the brain ; or in thofe parts connected 

 with, or dependant upon, its. jftrudure and 

 purpofes ; except when they are underftood to 

 be fymptomatic, or depending upon fome ori-- 

 ginal remote caufe; as the eifed; of bots prey^ 

 ing upon the ftomach' or inteftines -, internal 

 ulcerations, or complaints not immediately 

 difcoverable ; thefe may fometimes happen, 

 but very rarely to afFe6l the frame with fymp^ 

 toms fo truly alarming. 



To avoid entering into new defcriptions and 

 unentertaining definitions, that muft be tech- 

 nical to be accurate, and confequently extend- 

 ed to a length that can neither gratify the 

 expedation or improve the judgment of the 

 general . reader, I fhall, in as concife a way as 

 the fubjed will permit, introduce an abridgment 

 from the opinions of Gibson, which is in facfl 

 furnifhing the whole advanced by his fuc- 

 (:effors; who, without exception, g^neroufly 

 tranfmitted his ideas, and informations, for- 

 getting (or omitting) to elucidate the fubjed 

 with any brilliant obfervations of their own, 

 *^ APOPLEXY (fays he) is ufually defined 

 ** a privation of fenfe and motion, excepting 

 f^ only a languid one in the heart and breaft ; 



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