The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1810-12-24 00:00:00

Ants, adthout .aay reference to present °Litchi A person
under delirimn resembles one talking in his sleep; Ise is to-
telly insensible to all sorroanding objects. The bodily health
is at the time considerably affected ; great restlessocss
and want of sleep. la insanity, the inowl is acting upon none
mussed idea, to the truth of which it will partinneiosbly
adhere, contrary to the strusgest evidence of its falsity. The
iadividual is awake to all surrounding ohjeets, the geneial
health may Idc little or not al all impaired. Taking these two
punts as extieme points, derangement will lie somewhere
betwixt them, partaking more or less of one or the other.
The derangement whir It is the object of this Inquiry I con-
sider ptrtaking of delirium, but sever partaking of num-
tiny.
From which of the different species of mental disorder
that Dr. Willis has described is recovery most probable '—
From that species of derangement which mistakes most of
delirium, provided the patient survives the 'toddy disease.
Dr. Willis having made this division in his own mind, the
Committee wish to understand, whether he considers that
these three species all differ brim each other in kind or in
degree !—The three arc pram tL distinct iii themselves ;
they may irecasiosally run one into it., other. Deraingemeut
fur example may beeonie COM plot? delirium miry
pass through &rani-amid to its progress to recovery, though
nut necessarily.
According to this distribution of the subject, by what ti no
does Dr. Willis describe that general class of disorder of
whir li these arc species !—I Never hare sufficiently consi-
dered this subject with a view to cla,ilication, and am out
prepared to gie” a decisive answer the Ti ion
Do out all these three sper•ies fall minter the general mid
popular di sigualion of insanity %—I believe in the general
acceptation of the term, delirium would be exempt. Per-
haps the other may nut hart been sufficiently distingnisheil.
(bold Dr. ileitis give any precise definition of delirious
—Tour Lordships wiN we the extreme difficulty of giving a
definitios au premeditated. I cannot romare to du is.
Is there arty .1101.110 a Waseca delirium generally, de-
pendent upon fever, w lien it has arise.. to a great height,
and in not ilepeooleut 'moo such a degree of fryer
As far as the sy niptoin4 can be ja retired they are precisely
the Mine.

Having due regard Nall the eircum•lasres to which your
at'entiou has hero railed in the I.o3lffe of this (life mu-
naination, and especially lo all such rtrcnnntances (as far as
you elf acquainted with them) whirl' ri tate to His Msjerty's
wee of life, and the state of Ins bodily health, his present
and former disorders which hove been 'motioned is this ex-
aminatioo, the nature and noutsber of those disorders, the
eymplions, paroxisnis, and which have occurred
in the course of them respectively, mot the camparstive pro•
'teas made in thins respectively towards recovery ; you
arc denied la slate, whether a due regard to any or all of
such c.rcumstaar•es dues or dues not diminish the contidenee,
which you expressed is the beginning of retie reanimation,
that His :ticket! will ultimately 'Teener with it fill r,pnbi-
lity
of trenoietin,l ell businese—My confidence that His
jelly will ultimately review so as to transact all public bu••t.
nem is not diminished; but this opinion molt sae subject to
the uncertainly which attends all medical prognostics.