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action Æther affected afflicted afford alimentary canal anxiety Apoplexy appeared arteries attention become body brain Calomel cause circulation comfort consequence constitution curious degree depend determination of blood diarrhoea diet disease distressing Dolgelley dose drams drink Epilepsy evacuation evils excessive excited exercise extensive extremely feeling females flatulence fluid frame frequently functions Gum Arabic habits head head-ache heart Hemiplegia important increased indigestion induced indulgence influence inordinate instances irregular labour laudanum liquors liver malady medicines membranes menstruation mental mind mischief mode morbid Mucilage muscles nausea nerves nervous derangement Nervous Disorders nervous irritation nervous patient observed occasionally occur organs ounce pain Paralysis Paraplegia particularly pathy person perspiration phantasms Physical Sympathy Pill poison practitioner produced pulse quantity rendered secretion sedentary sensation sensibility skin skull sleep spinal marrow stimulus stomach and bowels sufferings sufficient supplied symptoms temperament tion uneasiness ureter vascular system Vertigo violent wine
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Página 147 - OH ! no, we never mention her, her name is never heard, My lips are now forbid to speak, that once familiar word ; From sport to sport they hurry me, to banish my regret, And when they win a smile from me they think that I forget.
Página 69 - After the first day the form of the deceased person no more appeared, but its place was supplied with many other phantasms, sometimes representing acquaintances, but mostly strangers ; those whom I knew were composed of living and deceased persons, but the number of the latter was comparatively small. I observed the persons with whom I daily conversed did not appear as phantasms, these representing chiefly persons who lived at some distance from me. ' ' These phantasms seemed equally clear and distinct...
Página 67 - About six o'clock there appeared also several walking figures, which had no connection with the first. After the first day the form of the deceased person no more appeared, but its place was supplied with many other phantasms, sometimes representing acquaintances, but mostly strangers : those whom I knew were composed of living and deceased persons, but the number of the latter was comparatively small.
Página 70 - They frequently did not come for some time, but always reappeared for a longer or shorter period, either singly or in company, the latter, however, being most frequently the case. I generally saw human forms of both sexes, but they usually seemed not to take the smallest notice of each other, moving as in a...
Página 71 - ... different colours and fashions in their dresses, though the colours seemed somewhat paler than in real nature; none of the figures appeared particularly terrible, comical, or disgusting, most of them being of an indifferent shape, and some presenting a pleasing aspect.
Página 70 - All these phantasms appeared to me in their natural size, and as distinct as if alive, exhibiting different shades of carnation in the uncovered parts, as well as different colours and fashions in their dresses, though the colours seemed somewhat paler than in real nature.
Página 71 - ... sensible friends of both sexes, whose addresses tended to appease my grief, which had not yet wholly subsided: their consolatory speeches were in general addressed to me when I was alone. Sometimes, however, I was accosted by these consoling friends while I was engaged in company, and not unfrequently while real persons were speaking to me. These consolatory addresses consisted sometimes of abrupt phrases, and at other times they were regularly executed.
Página 66 - My wife and another person came into my apartment in the morning in order to console me, but I was too much agitated by a series of incidents, which had most powerfully affected my moral feeling, to be capable of attending to them. On a sudden, I perceived, at about the distance of ten steps, a form like that of a deceased person. I pointed at it, asking my wife if she did not see it. It was but natural that she should not see anything ; my question, therefore, alarmed her very much, and she immediately...
Página 66 - At four in the afternoon, the form which I had seen in the morning re-appeared* I was by myself when this happened, and being rather uneasy at the incident, went to my wife's...
Página 70 - I was in company, and as well in the day as, at night, and in my own house as well as abroad; they were, however, less frequent when I was in the house of a friend, and rarely appeared to me in the street. When I shut my eyes, these...