ny other time, had he
any faintings, vomitings, or giddiness.--On the sixth day he was let
blood, on account of the pain in his shoulder and the contusion of his
hand, which were then the only symptoms he complained of, and of
which he soon found himself relieved.--Towards the beginning of the
following winter, he began to find _a small impediment in uttering
some words, and his left arm appeared weaker_. In the following
spring, having suffered considerably from the severities of the winter
campaign, he found _the difficulty in speaking, and in moving his left
arm, considerably increased_.--On employing the thermal waters of
Bourbonne, his speech become freer, but, on his return to Paris, the
Palsy was increased, and the arm somewhat wasted.--In the beginning of
the next spring he went to Balaruc; when he became affected with
_involuntary convulsive motions all over the body_. The left arm
withered more and more, _a spitting began_, and now it was _with
difficulty that he uttered a few words_. Frictions and sinapisms were
successively tried, and an issue, made by a caustic, was kept open for
some time without any effect; but no mention is made of what part the
issue was established in.

Soon after this, and three years and a half after the fall, Doctor
Maty first saw the patient, and gives the following description of
his situation. "A more melancholy object I never beheld. The patient,
naturally a handsome, middle-sized, sanguine man, of a cheerful
disposition, and an active mind, appeared much emaciated, stooping,
and dejected. _He still walked alone with a cane, from one room to the
other, but with great difficulty, and in a tottering manner_; his left
hand and arm were much reduced, and would hardly perform any motion;
_the right was somewhat benumbed, and he could scarcely lift it up to
his head; his saliva was continually trickling out of his mouth, and
he had neither the power of retaining it, nor of spitting it out
freely_. What words he still could utter were monosyllables, and these
came out, after much struggle, in a violent expiration, and with such
a low voice and indistinct articulation, as hardly to be understood
but by those who were constantly with him. He fetched his breath
rather hard; his pulse was low, but neither accelerated nor
intermitting. He took very little nourishment, could chew and swallow
no solids, and even found great pain in getting down liquids. Milk was
almost his only food; his bod