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At length he loses all sense and motion, ani dies un* 

 less speedily relieved. An aversion to blue and black, 

 and an affection for white, red, and green, arc other 

 "unaccountable symptoms of this disorder. 



There is no remedy but one. While he iics sense- 

 less and motionless, a musician plays several tunes. 

 When he hits on the right, the patient immediately 

 begins to make a faint motion. His fingers first move 

 in cadence, then his feet : then his legs, and by drgrees 

 his whole body. At length he rises on his feet, and 

 begins to dance, which some will do for six hours with* 

 out intermission. After this lie is put to bed, and when 

 hi* strength. is recruited, is called up by the same tune 

 to a second dance. 



This is continued for six or seven days at least till he 

 is so weak, that he can dance no longer. This is the 

 sign of his being cured ; for if the poison acted still, 

 he would dance till he dropt do*n dead. When he 

 is thoioughly tired he awakes as out of sleep, with- 

 out remembering any thing that is past. And some- 

 times he is totally cured ; but it not, he finds a me- 

 lancholy gloom, shuns men, seeks water, and if not 

 carefully watched, often leaps into a river, In some 

 the disorder returns that time twelvemonth, per- 

 haps for twenty or thirty years. And each time it is 

 removed as at first. Can even Dr. Mead account for 

 this? 



Equally unaccountable are the two relations pub- 

 lished some years since, by a physician of undoubted 

 credit. The first is, a gentleman was seized with a 

 violent fever, attended with a delirium. On the 

 third day he begged to hear a little concert in his 

 chamber. It was with great difficulty the physician 

 consented. From the first tune, his face assumed a 

 serene air, his eyes were no longer wild, and the 

 convulsions ceased. lie Mas free from the fever 

 during the concert ; but when that was ended, it 

 returned. The remedy was repeated, and both the 

 delirium and fever always ceased during the concerts* 



