e of fear might not be substituted in such cases to that of
hope with advantage to the patient? This question I shall not presume
to answer, but it leads me to say something of the state of the mind in
the case just related.

The patient, being a physician, was not ignorant of his danger, which,
some melancholy circumstances served to impress on his mind. It has
already been mentioned, that his mother and grandfather died of this
disease. It may be added, that in the year preceding that on which he
himself was attacked, a sister of his was carried off by consumption in
her 17th year; that in the same winter in which he fell ill, two other
sisters were seized with the same fatal disorder, to which one of them
fell a victim during his residence at Bristol, and that the hope of
bidding a last adieu to the other was the immediate cause of his
journey to Scotland, a hope which, alas! was indulged in vain. The day
on which he reached the end of his journey, her remains were committed
to the dust! It may be conjectured from these circumstances, that
whatever benefit may be derived from the apprehension of death, must in
this case have been obtained. The expectation of this issue was indeed
for some time so fixed that it ceased to produce much agitation; in
conformity to that general law of our nature, by which almost all men
submit with composure to a fate that is foreseen, and that appears
inevitable. As however the progress of disease and debility seemed to
be arrested, the hope and the love of life revived, and produced, from
time to time, the observations and the exertions already mentioned.

Wine and beer were rigorously abstained from during six months of the
above history; and all the blood which was taken was even to the last
buffy." Feb. 3, 1795.

8. _Febris scrophulosa._ The hectic fever occasioned by ulcers of the
lymphatic glands, when exposed to the air, does not differ from that
attending pulmonary consumption, being accompanied with night-sweats and
occasional diarrhoea.

M. M. The bark. Opium internally. Externally cerussa and bark in fine
powder. Bandage. Sea-bathing. See Class I. 2. 3. 21. and II. 1. 4. 13.

9. _Febris ischiadica._ A hectic fever from an open ulcer between the
muscles of the pelvis, which differs not from the preceding. If the matter
in this situation lodges till part of it, I suppose, b