Medical transactions / Royal College of Physicians of London.

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    when fitting, (landing, and at times in my bed, what I can beft exprefs by calling it an uni verbal paufe within me of the operations of nature for per¬ haps three or four feconds; and when fhe has refumed her functions, I felt a fiiockat the heart, like that which one would feel from a fmall weight being fattened by a firing to fome part of the body, and falling from the table to within a few inches of the floor. At times it will return two or three times in half an hour ; at other times not once a week ; and fometimes I do not feel it for a long time: and I think I have been lefs fubjedt to it for a year paft, than for feveral former ones. As you have mentioned feveral, who within your knowledge have died fuddenly, that were troubled with the angina peEloris, I fufpedt they were fubject to what I have delineated, as I think that much more likely to oc- cafion a fudden death, than either ol B 3 the