Medical transactions / Royal College of Physicians of London.

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    we need not defpair of finding a cure: and as there were no appearances of inflammation or fcirrhus or abfcefs, which in the former volume I mention as poflible caufes; we rauft not feek the remedy in bleeding and purging, and lowering the ftrength, but rather in the oppofite clafs of medicines, which are ufually called nervous and cordial, fuch as relieve and quiet convulfive motions, and invigorate the languish¬ ing principle of life. The fenfation, defcribed in the letter, of an apparent fufpenfion of life for a few feconds, is what I do not remem- ber to have ever heard mentioned by any patient befides this; and though 1 fay in the former paper upon this diforder, that I have feen it in twenty perfons, I may truly fay, that I have feen it in fifty. In this particular cafe, that univerfal paufe of the vital actions is faid to have been felt, when the patient was fitting, Standing, and at