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they say, commit crimes and mortify themselves without hopes of 

 reward; and thus become miserable both in this world and the 

 next. Thus Juvenal; 



Cum furor baud dubius, cum sit inanitesta phrenitis, 

 Ut locuples moriaris, egenti vivere fato ! 



The covetous man thought he gave good advice to the spend- 

 thrift, when he said, " Live like me," who well answered him, 



< Like you, Sir John < 



" That I can do, when all I have is gone !" 



POPE. 



14. Lethitimor. The fear of death perpetually employs the 

 thoughts of these patients: hence they are devising new medi- 

 cines, and applying to physicians and quacks without number. It 

 is confounded with hypochondriasis, Class I. 2. 3. 9. in popular 

 conversation, but is in reality an insanity. 



A young gentleman, whom I advised to go abroad as a cure for 

 this disease, assured me, that during the three years he was in 

 Italy and France he never passed a quarter of an hour without 

 fearing he should die. But he has now for above twenty years 

 experienced the contrary. 



The sufferers under this malady are generally at once discover- 

 able by their telling you, amidst an unconnected description of 

 their complaints, that they are nevertheless not afraid of dying. 

 They are also easily led to complain of pains in almost any part 

 of the body, and are thus soon discovered. 



M. M. As the maniacal hallucination has generally arisen in 

 early infancy from some dreadful account of the struggles and 

 pain of dying, I have sometimes observed, that these patients 

 have received great consolation from the inslances I have re- 

 lated to them of people dying without pain. Some of these, 

 which I think curious, I shall concisely relate, as a part of the 

 method of cure. 



Mr. , an elderly gentleman, had sent for me one whole 



day before I could attend him; on my arrival he said he was 

 glad to see me, but that he was now quite well, except that he 

 was weak, but had had a pain in his bowels the day before. He 

 then lay in bed with his legs cold up to the knees, his hands 

 and arms cold, and his pulse scarcely discernible, and died in 



about six hours. Mr. , another gentleman about sixty, lay in 



the act of dying, with difficult respiration like groaning, but in a 

 kind of stupor or coma vigil, and every ten or twelve minutes, 

 while I sat by him, he waked, looked up, and said, " who is it 



