[3]. See vol. 2. page 155 of the present work, where this subject is very fully considered.
[4]. See note at page 269 of vol. 2.
[5]. Aretæus asserts that immoderate perturbation of mind, consternation, fear, despondency, sudden and violent joy, immoderate laughter, &c. have produced apoplexy, (De Signis et Caus: Diut: Morb: Lib. 1, c. 7.) Forestus (p. 509) relates the case of a gentleman of plethoric habit, and hereditarily disposed to the disease, who, on receiving information of the sudden death of an intimate friend, was instantly seized with a tremor of the left foot, and soon afterwards with apoplexy. We beg to refer the reader to Dr. Cooke’s valuable and learned work on Nervous Disorders, vol. 1, p. 217, where the author has collected with much industry a variety of cases in illustration of this subject.
[6]. A Manual for the Student of Anatomy, containing rules for displaying the structure of the body, so as to exhibit the elementary views of anatomy, and their application to pathology and surgery, by J. Shaw; being an outline of the demonstrations delivered by him to the school of Great Windmill-street. 8vo. p. 342. London, 1821. We have been much pleased with this useful little work.
[7]. Cooke on Nervous Disease, vol. 1, p. 176. In some few instances, however, death takes place immediately in this disease. Dr. Kirkland speaking of apoplexy, in which there is an instantaneous extinction of the vital principle, relates the case of a mantua-maker, who being at work, was talking cheerfully with some of her friends about her, when her hands dropped down upon her lap, and she was perfectly dead. Forestus relates several similar cases, but hesitates in pronouncing them apoplexy. We have no doubt but that the greater proportion of sudden deaths depend upon diseases of the heart.
[8]. See the trial of Lawrence Braddon and Hugh Spake, for a misdemeanour, in suborning witnesses to prove the Earl of Essex was murdered by his keepers. Feb. 7, 1683. Sta. Tri. vol. iii.
[9]. See our observations upon this phenomenon at page [13] of the present volume.
[10]. Dr. Badenoch, in a work on the diseases of India, ascertained by repeated and accurate experiments, that the heat of those who die apoplectic from a “coup de soleil,” or “insolation,” as it is termed, continues for a considerable time several degrees higher than the natural standard; in one case, the heart felt to his hand as if it had been five or six degrees higher than in life and health, notwithstanding the body had been dead twenty-four hours.
[11]. Elements of Juridical or Forensic Medicine. Edit. 2, p. 101.
[12]. See experiments by Dr. Gibbs, on Adipocire, in the Philosophical Transactions for 1794, part ii, and for 1795.