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and, unless asked to sit, had a perpetual desire of traversing the 

 room : he was neither pale nor flushed, yet his face was glazed 

 with perspiration : this appeared symptomatic of the state of 

 circulation, and not from the unceasing motion, as he himself 

 explained it : he says he is very feeble, but that a pain in his 

 loins and back is the cause of his unwillingness to sit. 



It was simply asked, if he thought he could now admit a lit- 

 tle water into the room ; but, quick as electricity, he was again 

 thrown back, and immediately after he flung himself to the other 

 side of the room, and clung to a chest of drawers ; then he re- 

 turned with the same velocity to the bed post, to which he 

 clung with both his hands, sobbing all the while loudly. To 

 soothe him, he was assured that the water should not be 

 brought ; but this, by recalling the idea, renewed his suffering : 

 he begged, nay, he commanded, in an agonizing, hurried man- 

 ner, not to speak of it ; to address him on another subject was 

 to give him relief. He said that he was glad to grasp at any 

 thing near him, lest he should hurt us, for he was not himself 

 during these fits. 



His hand is hot, his pulse quicker than it was in the forenoon ; 

 he passes his urine in very small quantities, white and turbid. 



Half past 7 



There were several messages for me, saying, that he was out- 

 rageously mad. I found him lying on the bed delirious, some- 

 times praying earnestly, sometimes crying that he was the 

 cause of his own death. He .frequently started up to spit out 

 the saliva ; and when I wished him to lie quiet, he said he could 

 not, if he did he would be choaked : he said that some one was 

 blowing chaff upon him, and suffocating him. His speech was 

 now more than ever hurried, and often quite unconnected. 

 His pulse was 112, and very full. Immediately after one of 

 the convulsions, he had swallowed two cupsful of tea. 



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