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when the hands and feet do not hang inertly from him ; 
when the respiration is free and he does not expectorate 
too much phlegm ; when he prostrates himself and adores 
his God in the morning, noon, and evening ; when his 
taste is natural, and especially when he can distinguish 
between sour, bitter, and sweet. Under these favourable 
circumstances, we have no reason to be apprehensive of life, 
even if the patient should be very weak. 
" Attention to the stars may likewise give us considerable 
information respecting the fate of our patient. 
" The symptoms of death are as follows : — 1. Want of 
sleep. 2. A constant murmuring, or unintelligible endea- 
vours to speak. 3. Want of memory 4. Deep groaning 
breath. 5. Staring immoveable eyes. 6. Proneness to eat 
and to drink many improper things. 7. Disquietude. 8. 
Spasmodic contraction of the hands, feet, and extremities. 
9- Failure of the sight. 10. An unsteady pulse, that turns 
to the right or left when the finger is put upon it. 11. An 
intermittent pulse. 12. When the body becomes cold, and 
the eyes stare round. 13. Dryness of the breast. 14. The 
protuberance of the veins, especially of that in the breast. 
15. When the sides of the tongue, of the eyes, and of the 
joints become pale. 16. The swelling of the scrotum. 
17. Burned, dry excrements. 18. Swelling of the feet and 
abdomen, especially of the navel. 19. Total costiveness. 
20. Total want of appetite to eat or drink. 21. Constant 
coughing and yawning. 22. Extraordinary degree of thirst. 
23. The sinking in of the eyes." 
Their opinions respecting the character of a physician, were 
given many years ago in Sir W. Ainslie's Materia Medica 
of India, where, we are told, " He must be a person 
of strict veracity, and of the greatest sobriety and decorum ; 
he ought to be thoroughly skilled in all the commentaries 
on the Ayurveda, and be otherwise a man of sense and 
