3*72 ON UTERINE IRRITATION, AND ITS EFFECTS 



she recovered in a quarter of an hour, was quite amazed at the 

 questions put to her about the church and the sermon, and de- 

 nied that she had been in any such place ; but next night, on 

 being taken ill, she mentioned that she had been at church, 

 repeated the words of the text, and, in Dr Dyce's hearing, 

 gave an accurate account of the tragical narrative of the three 

 young men, by which her feelings had been so powerfully 



affected. On this occasion, though in Mrs L 's house, she 



asserted that she was in her mother's. 



Dr Dyce saw her on many subsequent occasions, when simi- 

 larly affected, and from one fit she recovered in his presence. 

 He said the eyes had now all the vivacity of youth and health. 

 Previously they were like those of a person under amaurosis, 

 or those of a person half-inebriated, and who had never been 

 in that state before. The difference, he says, is not perfectly 

 expressed by either or both of these comparisons, but was very 

 striking to all who saw her. 



Calling one day, an hour after recovering from a fit with 

 which she had been seized in the morning, she was quite well, 

 only complaining of a confused feeling in her head, accompa- 

 nied now and then with ringing of the ears. The countenance 

 was somewhat dejected, and there was a slight lividity under 

 the eyes. 



On one occasion, when the Doctor saw her in a fit, he says 

 her stare was accompanied with something resembling a squint 

 in the eye. 



About the 26th of March she complained of a pain in her 

 head, as if it had been cut in two. Formerly she had only 

 complained of confusion. 



On Sunday the 26th, while in a fit, she commenced prepa- 

 rations for going to church ; but, while curling her hair, burned 

 her brow with the hot curling-tongs, which roused her from 



the 



