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London, England, 1810-12-19 00:00:00

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upon his Majesty in the.year 1788
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saw his Majesty in his illness in the year 180. t, and
and also in his illness in the year i 804.
Q. Have you been called in to attend his Majesty,
or have you hac) any opportunities of seeing his Majes-
ty in the intervals between those illnesses of.
1.801, and 1804, up to the time of ycur being called
in, in this present illness P—A. I have had few oppor-
tunities of -seeing his Majesty, ekee2pt in thpse
nesses. I have had occasion to him two or throe
times on my-own business, when he did me the
hondur of appointing me his Physi, ian Extraorikt-
nary, and then his Physician in Ordinary; but not
medically.
_ Q. You have stated, that the greater cumber of
'Patients, labouring under this same sort of ii,firmity
as his Majesty, with have come under your Observt,-
- tion, have recovered ; do you mean, in the,greater
number, to include patients of the age at which 1 it
Majesty, has now arrived ?—A. It has tot occulted
to me, to see any persons at that advanced petit d at
life, labouring under this disease.
' Q. Do you know that Medical people in gt neiat
consider, that 23 life advances, after a c.,q-Lin pe-
riod, recovery is deemed more improbable P—A.
Yes, I believe, that is the general opinion.
Q. Then, in the greater number t patients who
have recovered, as stated by yob, all those patients
were in a class of age below that of the king
A. I think so ; there 'was one whose age I du not
recoiled precisely. ,

Q. Have you been in the habit of attending any
of the public hospitals for the reception of p-itio4)4
under this Aisease No, I have no' been in that
habit of attending any hospital appropriated to that'
reception of such patients.
Q. You have stated, that you entertain a very
favourable, opinion' of the King's ultimatti reecieery ; ;
and you have stated; One ot the reasons ot your
opinion to be, the soundness of his Majesty's con.
stitution.; in those patients whom you have a tended,
haveyocte not found tbat very sound constitutions
have often been afflieted with incerable maladies.
of this nature ?-a-A. Nv, I do not know that I have
Often found that.
Q. Have you found it in any instances ?—A. I
have seen people who have not recovered.
Q. With very sound conFtitutinns with
such constitutions aS the King ; proimbh, 1 stinted
have had great hopes of them, if they had. Rilt
cannot charge my mind now with every patient
the kind I have attekied during forty years. Thu
general impression made upon my mind, does not
authorize me to answer that question decisivelV.
Q. When the constitution is so sound, as. to af-
ford the medical attendant no reason tor the cliental
infirmity as arising otit of that constitution, do yua
think that' the probability of recovery is more or
less from that circumstance ?—A. More, certaioly,
'from esound constitution.
Q. It you cannot trace any cause for the infirmi-
ty If I cannot trace any cause, it there is nu
hereditary taint, or any obvious cause for it, no ex-
ternal injury, or any thing which looks like organi-
cal affection of the brain; I -shanld apprehend e
sound constitution affords much the greatest protia•
bility of recovery.
Q. You have stated, as' onothei• reason, the'
extreme accuracy of the King's. memory; in pa-'
tients labouring under this infirmity, is not extierrits
accuracy of memory very frequent, and sometimes.
what May be called morbid ?--e.A. I never obserVed
that. • . ,
Q. Yon have also accounted for the probnbility of
of the eKing's recovery, by observing the sleiet,
simple, and temperate diet the King has gal ways used ;
,
when patients have come . mica yotir ob,:ervatibit;
whosehabits of life have been exactly the reverse of
the King's, has not the reducing them to that\ .stilet
and temperate diet and hie ter which the King
has beeu accustomed, afforded the best ground
of hope, for - medical men, of their recovery ?
A. Wheil excess in the habits of life has teen
too Much indulged, the removal of that excess, and
the subsequent adoption of a temperate and rather
a more sparing regimen, has been frequently attend-
ed with success.
Q.. What do you mean' by the integrity of the
mind, at the present time I mean that
his memory is entire, his perceptions are entire;
and his acuteness is considerable, winch • appears.
from every now then a comment on any thing that
is said. His judgment I have said was perverted,
and that at present his discretion is asleep at times;
-though every new and then there are gleams of both,
but they are transient.
Q. In detailing the present state of the King's
ut;nd, as to his memory, his perceptions, the aher.
re'ions of his judgment, and his fusseyt discretion ;
is not that state of miedsommou to all persons ki-
bciuring under the Same infirmity, or are they uar-
ticularly symptoms belonging to the King ?—A. I
do not:knew that I ever >aw exactly a case patatiel
to the King's; the disease is modified by hie pecu-
liar constitution, and perhaps in sonic measure 'by
his peculiar station.
Q. You haVe mentioned your etpeaation, that the
Kiog will recover, and be able tOttansaa public
businesS'again, but that some vestiges of the com-
plaint may remain ; do you mean to say, that 'the
recovery will be, in your opinion, complete to ;the
transaction of public business, while ve,tiges-of tire
cOmplaint remain ?—A. Yes, I should have no
dOubt there might. be times when his Majesty might
be. perfectly competent to every thing; and,t at
now and then, a little hurry, or something, migt
for a:quarter of an hour, or an hour, agitate het ,
but that it would all subside again: I understand
that was the case in' hie former recoveries, for' a
time; I did not learn when it ceased -e I did not see
the kiine; in any of his illnesses, aster lac had been

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