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SO as to give a clear idea of it. Among the first things he recollected, was, that 

 he had that day visited several patients ; but he could neither discover their dis- 

 eases, names, number, nor any other circumstance relating to them. He could 

 likewise recollect, that he had formerly known a great many things, of which 

 he was become entirely ignorant, but could not fall on any method of recovering 

 that knowledge which he had lost, A person who has lost his senses by liquor, 

 as soon as he recovers, is perfectly well acquainted with every thing he knew be- 

 fore : but the case was very different with him, for the furniture of his room, 

 and almost every other object on which he cast his eyes, appeared as strange, and 

 new to him, as if he had only that moment begun his existence ; and though he 

 could remember the name of any thing when he looked at it, yet it was not with- 

 out investigating its nature, that he could discover its use. 



He had been put to bed when he vomited, and he knew not whether it was 

 owing to it, or the camphire, but he had now a severe head-ach which disturbed 

 him not a little all the evening. Between 5 and 6 o'clock he arose, and drank a 

 bowl of tea, and the diluted juice of some more lemons and oranges. The gid- 

 diness in his head, singing in his ears, excessive heat and tremor, which he had 

 felt so severely before, were now considerably abated, though far from being en- 

 tirely gone off. About 7 o'clock, he had another visit from Dr. Monro, who, 

 on numbering his pulsations, found they were now reduced from 100 to 80 ; in 

 a minute after this, the thermometer was applied to his stomach, and in half an 

 hour the mercury rose 2 degrees above blood-warm ; it was then removed from 

 his stomach to the doctor's, and the mercury fell more than I degree. 



Between 8 and Q o'clock, though he was considerably better, he still felt an 

 uneasiness of body, and a confusion of mind, which it is impossible to describe ; 

 on account of which, he went to bed, and very soon fell into a calm and soft 

 repose, which continued, without any interruption, till next morning. When 

 he awaked, he found his head-ach quite gone, though a small degree of the con- 

 fusion in it still remained. On gcMng to stool that morning, he was extremely 

 costive, though he had not been so before, nor continued to be so after. All 

 that day he felt a great soreness, and rigidity over his whole body, as if he had 

 caught cold, or undergone some severe exercise ; the next day he was something 

 better, and the day following quite recovered. 



As the foregoing experiments had not fully satisfied him, whether camphire 

 acted as a heater or cooler on the body, he resolved to try if it would give any 

 additional heat or cold to fluids, in which it was dissolved ; but, after repeated 

 trials, he found that it never altered the natural heat of spirits, or oils, in what- 

 ever degree they were impregnated with it. 



The first dose he took was a moderate one, and appeared to have acted as a 

 cooler ; but the next, if there is any trusting to the sensations occasioned by 



