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apparently from the pain of fear. See Sect. XVII. 







After having thus returned for about an hour 

 every day for two or three weeks, the reveries 

 feemed to become lefs complete, and fome of their 

 circumflances varied ; fo that (he could walk about 

 the room in them without running againft any of 

 the furniture ; though thefe motions were at firft 

 very unfteady and tottering. And afterwards me 

 once drank a diih of tea, when the whole appara- 

 tus of the tea-table was fet before her ; and expref- 

 fed fomc fufpicion, that a medicine was put into it, 

 and once feemed to fmell of a tuberofe, which was 

 in flower in her chamber, and deliberated aloud 

 about breaking it from the'ftem, faying, " it 

 would make her filler fo charmingly angry." At 

 another time in her melancholy moments (lie heard 

 the found of a palling beil, '* I wifh I was dead," 

 me cried, liftening to the bell, and then taking off" 

 one of her fhoes, as (he fat upon the bed, " I love 

 the colour black," fays me, " a little wider, and a 

 little longer, even this might make me a coffin I" 

 Yet it is evident, me was not fenfible at this time y 

 any more than formerly, of feeing or hearing any 

 perfon about her ; indeed when great light was 

 thrown upon her by opening the mutters of the 

 window, her trains of ideas feemed lefs melancho- 

 ly ; and when I have forcibly held her hands, or 

 covered her eyes, (lie appeared to grow impatient, 

 and would fay, (he could not tell what to do, for 

 fhe could neither fee nor move. In all thefe cir- 

 cumftances her pulfe continued unaffected as in 

 health. And when the paroxyfm was over, (he 

 could never recollect a (ingle idea of what had 

 palled in it. 



This afloniming difeafe, after^the life of many 

 other medicines and applications in vain, was cured 

 by very large dofes of opium given about an hour 



before 





