PROFESSOR MILLERS REPORT. 473 



fessor Miller's report, ' and found that unusually well ; 

 but soon we discovered that it was head-symptoms that 

 made him uneasy. He acknowledged having been 

 night after night up till very late in the morning, 

 working hard and continuously at his new book, 

 " which," with much satisfaction he said, " I have 

 finished this day." He was sensible that his head had 

 suffered in consequence, as evidenced in two ways : 

 first, occasionally he felt as if a very fine poniard had 

 been suddenly passed through and through his brain. 

 The pain was intense, and momentarily followed by 

 confusion and giddiness, and the sense of being very 

 drunk, unable to stand or walk. He thought that a 

 period of unconsciousness must have followed this, a 

 kind of swoon, but he had never fallen. Second, what 

 annoyed him most, however, was a kind of nightmare, 

 which for some nights past had rendered sleep most 

 miserable. It was no dream, he said : he saw no 

 distinct vision, and could remember nothing of what 

 had passed accurately. It was a sense of vague and yet 

 intense horror, with a conviction of being abroad in the 

 night wind, and dragged through places as if by some 

 invisible power. " Last night," he said, " I felt as if I 

 had been ridden by a witch for fifty miles, and rose far 

 more wearied in mind and body than when I lay down." 

 So strong was his conviction of having been out, that he 

 had difficulty in persuading himself to the contrary, by 

 carefully examining his clothes in the morning to see if 

 they were not wet or dirty ; and he looked inquiringly 

 and anxiously to his wife, asking if she was sure he had 

 not been out last night, and walking in this disturbed 

 trance or dream. His pulse was quiet, but tongue foul. 

 The head was not hot, but he could not say he was free 

 from pain. But I need not enter into professional 



