[24] Ad libellum Hippocratis de humor. p. 211.
[25] In studious men, who lead a sedentary life, whilst they grow pale with poring over books, an apoplexy often arises from such a cause; but it comes on slowly and gradually. For the first symptom is languor, and a love of indolence; then the understanding begins to grow dull, the memory to flag; they become sleepy, stupid, and often continue a long time in that state before their death. I have seen, and not without the greatest compassion, men of the most profound learning, and who had deserv’d highly of the republick of letters, who, as it were, surviv’d themselves above a twelvemonth in a state of total oblivion, and at last died of apoplexy. Van Swieten, tom. III. p. 263.
[26] Adam vitæ medicorum, p. 372.
[27] We meet in the medicinal diary with an account, very well worth reading, of a severe colick, attended with other bad symptoms, and occasion’d by intense study and nocturnal lucubrations. Tom. I. p. 352.
[28] Van Swieten, tom. III. p. 87. ex Columbo.
[29] Experience shews us that men of learning, though naturally of a chearful disposition, become at last fix’d, silent, pale, emaciated, and strangely troubled with the hypochondriac disorder, which generally tyrannizes over sedentary people. Ant. Felici dissertazioni epistolari, p. 203.
[30] Boerhaav. ad institut. §. 896, tom. VII. p. 275.
[31] Lancisus de mortu subit. l. 1. c. 22.
[32] Markii Oratio funebris in obitum Triglandii. Leyden, 1705.
[33] The famous Rousseau; but he has since quitted the British asylum, and returned to France.