388 . PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO 17 6? . 



Fortunately, at this juncture, one of his young gentlemen came into the 

 room, who told him, after he recovered, that he desired him to shut the win- 

 dows, and threw himself backward on the bed, where he lay a few minutes very 

 quiet, after which, in a sort of frenzy, he started up and sat upon the side of it, 

 made some efforts to vomit, but evacuated nothing ; that he then threw himself 

 back again, fell into strong convulsions, foamed at the mouth, shrieked with 

 great violence, stared dreadfully at, and endeavoured to grasp and tear every thing 

 around him. This outrageous fit was succeeded by a calm, something similar to 

 fainting, during which time a relation was sent for, who came between 3 and 4 

 o'clock ; when he spoke to him, he awaked, as he thought, from sleep, and knew 

 him, though almost entirely insensible to every other object. Soon after, came 

 Dr. Cullen, who had been sent for also ; when he had felt his pulse, which beat 

 100 in a minute, he ordered him to be blooded ; but as it is probable that natural 

 antipathies will remain when every other sensation is nearly lost, Mr. H. obsti- 

 nately refused to undergo this operation, on account of an insuperable aversion 

 he had to it. All this time, no person knew any thing of his having taken the 

 camphire; nor did he recollect any thing of it himself; and though he was re- 

 covered so much from the fit he had just described, as to know every one about 

 )iim, he neither knew where he was, nor what he did. 



As he felt a very uncommon sensation of heat, he got violently out of the bed, 

 and threw himself on the floor, the coolness of which was very agreeable to him ; 

 on which some cold water was brought, and his hands and face bathed in it ; 

 this proved still more agreeable, and in some degree quieted .a tremor which had 

 seized on every part of his body. At this time. Dr. Monro, junior, who had 

 also been sent for, came to his assistance. As he could give him no account of 

 the cause of his illness ; while he was walking through the room, he acci- 

 dentally cast his eyes on a paper he had left on the table, containing the relation 

 of his having taken the camphire, and its effects upon him, so long as he had 

 been able to mark them. On this discovery, he immediately ordered him warm 

 water ; of which having drank pretty plentifully, he soon vomited, and, though 

 more than 3 hours had passed, since he had taken the camphire, a great deal of 

 it was evacuated in an undissolved state. 



While he was holding his head over the basin into which he was vomiting, the 

 smell of the camphire arose very strong, and first made him recollect that he had 

 taken it, though he could give no distinct account of the time when, or manner 

 how. He now, by the doctor's order, drank the juice of 2 or 3 lemons and 

 oranges, but was not sensible of any benefit from them. He mentioned before, 

 that he had not only lost all remembrance of his past actions, but also the know- 

 ledge of almost every present object ; bu the now began, in some degree, to reco- 

 ver both ; though in a manner so extraordinary, as he could not possibly describe* 



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