MEMOIR. XV 
normal, beating from 80 to 85 in the minute. One of the medical attend- 
ants, however, thought fit, in the course of the day, to bleed the patient 
largely: two pounds of healthy looking blood were drawn from the left 
arm. A mustard foot-bath was used in the evening, and a large blister 
applied to the back of the neck. The night was spent very restlessly ; 
and about three, a.M., the pulse seemed so hard and full that the attend- 
ants were induced to repeat the bleeding, which they now did from the 
right arm. After this the patient’s muscular powers sunk rapidly, though 
his nervous sensibility and intelligence were not at all impaired. On 
Friday morning he was ordered a little tartar emetic, which however did 
not act upwards. His mouth was then observed to be filled with a copious 
flow of mucous saliva; and this, together with the difficulty which he felt in 
swallowing the emetic solution, induced the patient himself to remark that 
he was like a person labouring under hydrophobia. In the afternoon, M. Du- 
puytren, in order to excite the action of the esophagus and pharynx, threw 
into the stomach four-and-twenty grains of ipecacuanha, but no vomiting 
ensued. In three hours after double the quantity was employed, but 
without the occurrence even of nausea. At seven in the evening, a strong 
lavement of salt and water (saturated) was given: this produced a super- 
purgation. Same night two or three large ‘ English vesicatories’ were 
applied along the course of the cervical plexuses, and the patient was in a 
most restless condition. On Saturday morning it appeared that the left 
leg was beginning to be paralyzed. At the patient’s earnest request, 
some bouillon was conveyed into his stomach: he was also removed from 
his bed-chamber into his spacious saloon. The blisters did no good; 
they did not even irritate the skin. In the course of the day he had given 
him some iced raspberry vinegar, and enjoyed comparative repose; but 
the night brought on much severe suffering. All power of motion and 
swallowing was now extinct. Twenty leeches were applied to the region 
of the mastoid processes. ‘ When I saw him on Sunday morning,’ says 
Dr. Rousseau, ‘ it seemed as if he had grown on a sudden ten years older; 
his voice also was wonderfully changed.’ That day (Sunday, 13th—the 
day of his death) the patient began to lose all hope. When any new mea- 
sure was proposed to him he shook his head with a desponding assent. 
He was cupped on the loins about noon; and again, about eight in the 
evening, he was persuaded to suffer himself to be cupped below the sca- 
pula. This operation fatigued him greatly. At a quarter to nine he 
asked the hour, and complained that his faculties were leaving him; ‘ and, 
at a quarter to ten,’ says Dr. R., ‘I observed three or four slight motions 
of the head and a feeble expiration, which I found had deprived the world 
of a man of vast knowledge and the most extraordinary genius. He died 
in his arm-chair, sitting erect, with his head neither inclined one way nor 
