3 ^ DISEASES CL^SS HI. t. a. i^ 



ous, they fay, commit crimes and mortify themfelves without 

 Jiopes of reward 5 and thus become miferable both in this workf 

 and the next. Thus Juvenal ; 



Cum furor haud dubius, cum fit manifefta phrenitis, 

 U't locuples moriaris., egenti vivere fato 1 



The covetous man thought he 'gave good advice to the; 

 fpendthrift, when he faid, Live like me/' who well anfweredi 

 hjrn. 





Like you, Sir John ? 



^ That I can do, when all I have is gone 1" 



Pan 



14. Leihi timer. The fear of death perpetually employs the 

 thoughts of thefe patients : hence they are devifing new medi- 

 cines, and applying to phyficians and quacks without number* 

 Jt is confounded with hypochondriafis, Clafs I. 2. 3. 9. in pop^ 

 ular converfation, but is in reality an infanity. 



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

 for this difeafe, aflured me, that during the three years he was 

 In Italy and France he never paffed a quarter of an hour with- 

 out fearing he mould die. But he has now for above twenty 

 years experienced the contrary. 



The fufferers under this malady are generally at once difcov- 

 erable by their telling you, amidft an unconnected defcription, 

 of their complaints, that they are neverthelefs not afraid of dy- 

 ing. They are alio eafily led to. complain of pains in almoft any 

 part of the body, and are thus foon difcovered- 



M- M As the maniacal hallucination has generally arifen in 

 early infancy from fome dreadful account of the ilruggles and 

 pain of dying, I have fometimes obferved, that thefe patients 

 have received great confolation from the inftauces I have re- 

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

 which I think curious, I {hall concifely relate, as a part of the 

 niethod of cure, 



Mr. * , an elderly gentleman, had fent for me one whole 



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

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

 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 kneesj his hands 

 and arms cold, and his pulfe fcarcely difcernible, and died in 

 about fix hours. Mr. . , another gentleman about fixty, lay in 

 the aft of dying, with difficult refpiration like groaning, but in a 

 kind of ftupor or coma vigil, and every ten or twelve minutes* 

 while I fat by hirrjj he. wakedj looked up* a.n.4 faid a < who is it 



