310 STAGGERS, &c. 



lability, the brain; or in thofe partsconnedled 

 v/ith, or dependent upon, its ftrudure and 

 purpofes ; except when they are underftood to 

 be fymptomatic or depending upon fome ori- 

 ginal remote caufe 3 as the effcd: of bots prey- 

 ing upon the ftomach or inteflinesj internal 

 ulcerations, or complaints not immediately 

 difcoverable; thefe may fometimes happen ^^ 

 but very rarely to effedl the frarne with fympr. 

 toms fo truly alarming. 



To avoid entering into newdefcriptions and 

 unentertaining definitions, that muft be tech- 

 nical to be accurate, and confequently extend- 

 ed to a length that can neither gratify the ex- 

 pedation or improve the judgment of the ge- 

 neral reader, I fhall, in as concife a way as the 

 fubjedl will permit, introduce an abridgment 

 from the opinions of Gibson, which is in fact 

 furniiliing the whole advanced by his fuc- 

 cefTors; who, without exception, generoufly 

 tranfmitted his ideas and informations, for- 

 getting (or omitting) to elucidate the fubjedl 

 with any brilHant obfervations of their own. 

 «' APOPLEXY (%s he) is ufually defined 

 *^ a privation of fenfe and motion, excepting 

 *J only a languid one in the heart and breaft; 



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