The Sun.
London, England, 1827-09-03 00:00:00

MANCHESTER CORN MARKET.—Sept I.

LITERATURE.

We have been much instructed and terrified
by this elabOrate Dissertation on the Pulse ; in-
structed, because we find, explained in a lucid
and forcible manner, the exact nature and im-
portance of its operations ; and terrified, because
we discover (in direct contradiction to our pre-
conceived theory of health) that a pulse of about
two hundred horse power, or some such trifle in
the way of strength, is, in nine cases out of ten,
the surest index of health. We think, however,
that our author has laid rather too much stress on
this last fact ; a strong pulse may certainly be an
excellent symptom of convalescence, but why a
weak one should denote ill health we cannot con-
ceive. A respected friend of ours, with a pulse
like a sledge hammer, died the other day of an
apoplexy, proceeding from its very strength,
while another equally venerated acquaintance has
already lived on to the age of '72, without any
pulse at all—at least none to signify.
Our author seems to lay great strength on the
mode of feeling the pulse ; it should be felt, he ob-
serves, by placing the hand in a horizontal position,
and then suffering the fingers to fall perpendicu-
larly on the vein. How this is to be accomplished,
we cannot possibly imagine, particularly when
he adds, that as all the fingers, more or less,
possess pulses, it requires great tact to discrimi-
nate. The most approved method, we think, in
this trying difficulty, would be to feel the pulse
with a pair of tongs ; for these, to the best of
our recollection, have never yet been convicted
of a pulse.
' But to proceed to graver matters : the bulk
of an animal, observes Dr. Rucco, is directly at
variance with the energy of its pulse. This is a
curious, and to us a novel fact, let us therefore
quote the Doctor on the subject :
Observation proves to us that the energy of the vital
motions is in an inverse ratio to the largeness and bulk of the
bodies of animals ; for, whilst the pulse of the elephant
performs but very few beats in the course of a minute, that
of the horse performs proportionately, in the same time,
from 32 to 34 ; that of the ox from 36 to 38 ; that'of the
sheep nearly 64 ; that of the dog almost 78 ; and that of
pigeons more than a hundred. The truth of this observa-
tion will be the more evident, upon comparing the pulse of
an infant, which beats one hundred and forty times in the
short space of a minute, during its first moments of life,
with the pulse of an individual perfectly developed, which
performs only seventy-five beats in the same time, as is cer-
tainly the case with the pulse of an adult.
It is the opinion of our good Doctor—and a
somewhat hazardous opinion it is, to let loose
unmuzzled upon society—that the mental pro-
perties of a man, depend, in a great measure, on
his physical organization; that is to say, his mind
has no higher origin than his body, being, in fact,
its mere abject vassal. On this principle, imagina-
tion, or that part of it which is consequent on,
and grows out of a certain nice sensibility, is a
mere matter of leanness : a lean man is an ima-
ginative one, a fat man the contrary. Now,
however agreeably this may sound in the ears of
those who like ourselves have the good luck to be

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DR. RUCCO ON THE PULSE.
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transparent, it will tell but badly for your honest
open-faced fellow, six foot high by about four broad,
like the gentleman who, while we write this, is
stationed, in all the pride of the above dimen-
sions, at our elbow. But let the Doctor
speak for himself.
The peculiar dispositions of the organization are so
united with the state of man's sensibility and irritability,
that the degree of these vital properties may be approxi-
mately obtained from the mere external conformation of the
body. Thus, in proportion as an individual is fat or lean,
robust or delicate, moderately fat, or moderately robust,
the mode or degree of feeling of that person will certainly
vary according to the apparent disposition of his or her or-
ganization. The fatter a person is, and the more bulky
his body, the lower in proportion is the sphere of activity
of his organs, which therefore are less susceptible of the
shock of stimuli, and perform their functions slowly ; not
only does the animal fat hinder the stimuli from acting
directly on the nervous system, which, together with the
sanguineous system, is covered by it, but it likewise re-
presses, and stifles its development, if it does not paralyze
its strength. Nature has, therefore, well marked the class
of fat individuals, who have but little sensibility and irri-
tability ; they are also, in general, scantily furnished with
blood, excitement, and physical strength, and especially
with energy. Thus, when height is found united with
fatness and bulkiness of body, we have the better reason
for supposing the individuals of this class to be possessed of
little sensibility and irritability.
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The other distinct class of individuals in whom the de-
gree of sensibility and irritability varies according to the
external conformation of the body, is that of thin, lean, and
emaciated persons : these, as is well known, have a consti-
tution evidently nervous, the more so as their nerves are
large, and more exposed to the action of stimuli, and not at
all kept down by animal fat ; their organs are in general of
smaller size, their operations consequently are more ener-

getic • hence, however small may be the physical force of
persons, we find in them the elevation of sensibility,
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especially of irritability, the activity of their organs,
alaenaddnthe energy of their functions. Another striking obser-
vation which we shall bring forward, as a line of demarca-
tion between the classes of and lean persons, is that the
former, whilst they abound, as before said, in animal fat,
have but little blood ; the latter, on the contrary, abound
in blood, and are deficient in animal fat.
Fat and blood are never found together in large quanti-
ties in animals ; an inverse ratio exists between them ; for,
two young animals of the same species being bled to death,
one of which had been fattened by large quantities of its
favourite food, and the other regularly fed, it was observed,
after the death of the two animals, that the fatter had less
blood than the lean one.
It should seem, from the above statement,
that feeling (that adjunct in every instance of
genius, and its inspirer in many), results
chiefly from the proportion of fat and lean which
a gentleman may happen to carry upon his peri-
phery. If we take this for granted, it will save
much useless trouble, and enable us in future to
tell a poet at first sight. Since writing the above
sentence a stranger, lean enough to be an Epic poet,
has called in at the office ; further, however, than
his exceeding transparency we have seen no evi-
dence of the poetic capacity about him. He looked
smiling and comfortable ; and until we had read
Dr. Rucco on the pulse, we should no more
have thought of calling him a poet than Sir
Thomas Lethbridge a Solomon. But truth it
seems is against us.
In speaking incidentally of anger, our good
Doctor somewhat sweepingly calls it " the effect
of ignoble and base feelings." Pray, Doctor, if
a pickpocket in the street were to drag the
proof sheets of your next publication out of the
inarybdis of yur co pocket, wold your visit-
g him with ion atstant chastisementu be "the effect
of ignoble and base feelings"—or would these
feelings est with the footpad ? We refer for
an aiisv
to the to
other your own good sense. With re-
spect passions, otir worthy M.D.
writes as follows :
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The passions, whatever be their nature, all act imme-
diately upon theheart, and consequently upon the system of
the circulation of the blood, and upon the pulse. The sen-
serial organs are certainly those which receive the various
impressions from external objects, conveying them to the
brain, or common sensorium, in which they are perceived ;
but it is not, likewise, less true, that neither the brain, nor
the sensorial organs, directly participate in the effects of the
passions. The sensorial organs, in other words are the
direct agents which convey to the common sensorium the
various impressions, causes of the passions ; and it is the
common sensorium, a centre of every species of sensation,
which perceives them ; but, notwithstanding that the sen-
sory organs and the sensorium are the manufacturers, so to
speak, the former of the impressions, and the latter of the
sensations in which the passions originate' yet these have
not any direct influence, either upon the brain or the sen-
sorial organs ; for we see that the one, as well as the others,
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the excitability of the organs of internal life, the sole seat slanting ; the natural !Tat of the body is increased, the face
of. the local disorders resulting from them, although it becomes red, and afterwards livid; the pulse heats with
often happens that the effect of different passions sympatlie- vehemence and rapidity, and its oscillations are sensibly
tically excite the brain and the sensorial organs. The most hard. All these phenomena, which show the state of vio-
celebrated actors, says Bichat, when they wish to express hence to which choleric men expose themselves in the exer-
the passions of love, joy, vengeance, sorrow, &c., do not cise of their passion, endanger life sufficiently to convince
place the band upon the head, but upon the region of the us of the malignant character of anger ; thus, should this
heart, the stomach, the liver, the pancreas, or the intos- passion not be intense and strong enough to exhaust vitality
tines, according to the passion they are desirous of express- at once, and consequently bring on immediate death, as it
ing. We may now proceed to investigate the relations frequently does, it may nevertheless induce apoplexy, or ul-
which unite the variations of the pulse with the exercise timately cause organic affections in the heart, the liver, or

of the human passions.
Thus hope, a pleasing passion, and constant friend of
Man ; ambition, which often leads the mind to its greatest
elevation; courage, the mover of great enterprises; joy,
and other similar passions, when moderate, and directed
by noble motives, raise the energy of the contractions of
the heart and arteries; accelerate in due proportion the
course of the blood in the capillary vessels of the cutaneous
organ, from which results the animated tint of the phy-
siognomy and external covering of the body ; facilitate and
develope the exercise of respiration ; improve the state of
digestion, nutrition, and of the various secretions, which
are then performed in a. healthy manner ; and in this way
the above passions render the beatings of the pulse regular,
energetic, strong, and robust, and also the lineaments of
the face proportionably animated and expressive, which all
correspond to the energy of vital motions, and therefore to
.the elevation of the circulation of the blood. From what
has been said, it is therefore clear, that is upon the organs
of internel life, that the above-mentioned passions direct
their action, and that, by the effects resulting from them,
they merit the appellation of tonic or sthenic passions; in
opposition to fear, sorrow, terror, displeasing sensations,
&c., which are called asthenic, or depressing passions.
These last-named passions act in quite an opposite man-
ner to the former, for their effects are indicated by the
weakness of the organs of digestion, and by the slowness of
the vital motions. This state of languor of the nervous
and sanguineous system prevents the blood from reaching
the capillaries, and gives rise to the other phenomenon of
the paleness of the face, and of all the external covering of
the hotly. The vital powers being depressed, exhibit cold
sweats, tremours, palpitations, syncope, and not seldom
even death itself, in consequence of the great progress
made by the deterioration of the vital powers of the heart,
which successively slackens its contractions, and suspends,
or finally interrupts their exercise, thus occasioning death.
The smallness, weakness, rarity, and often the intermittence
of the pulse, which obtains during the action of depressing
passions, are therefore the effect of a languid state of the
ventricles of the heart and arteries, upon which these pas-
sions exert their action and power; and as the smallness,
weakness, slowness, and intermittency of the pulse are ob-
served to increase; the greater must be considered the in-
tensity ofdepressing passions, and the degree of prostration
of the vital powers. Such is, at least, the result of ob-
servation.
But although fear, sadness, and the other asthenic pas-
sions, act in an inverse sense to those of joy, courage, am-
bition, and love ; yet, when these invade man suddenly,
with great impetuosity, they either extinguish life imme-
diately, as the history of man testifies, or expose it to se-
rious diseases; diseases which, in the last analysis, do not
appear different from those resulting from the asthenical
passions, which exhaust life directly, whilst the others
produce the same effect indirectly.
Commencing, in fact, to treat of joy, we observe in na-
ture, that this passion, when it is intense or excessive,
never fails to produce the following phenomena. First, joy
shows itself in the countenance, which it tinges with red ;
then the heart palpitates precipitately, instead of contracting
itself regularly ; the pulse of course becomes agitated, beat-
ing more and more irregularly, while tears drop from the
eyes ; these phenomena are often succeeded by spasm of
the heart, and this fatal effect of sudden and excessive joy
no longer allows the venous blood to penetrate freely into the
right cavities of the heart, in order to pass by this means to the
lungs, where it acquires from the inspired air the principles of
vitality, which it has afterwards to distribute to the different
organs of the human body ; a sensation of contraction then
generally compresses the epigastric plexus, and the harbin-
gers of death make their appearance; these are fainting
fits, the intermittence, if not total want of pulse, preceded
by tremours in the extremities of the body, paleness of
visage, and cold perspiration. All these phenomena, as
well as the death by which they are succeeded, result from
the exhaustion of vitality, produced by the impetuosity of
excessive joy.
Ambition, also, when immoderate, is the cause of many
physical evils. 'lt plunges the mind into a perpetual agi-
tation ; for, even should the insatiably-ambitious man ob-
tain the object so much desired, he does not enjoy it, be-
cause that very instant he is ambitious of something else ;
and thus, from desire to desire, be at length passes to a
state of deep melancholy, man not being able, by a wise or-
dination of Providence, to attain every thing in this vale of
tears ; then jealousy, envy, and hatred, combine together,
and these base feelings, which certainly degrade roan, sen-
sibly affect the exercise of the organic functions. The
heart and arteries contract irregularly, and thus the pulse
of the ambitious man varies every instant; at one time it
beats quickly, at another slowly ; now it is bard and deep,
and now close, unequal, and often intermittent. The cause
of this irregularity in the contractions of the heart and ar-
teries is found in the depression of the sensitive powers,
which produces, in thee excessivelyeambitious nun, that
continual agitation of mind which is its consequence.
In like manner, courage, when carried beyond the limits
of moderation, alters the course of the blood, and causes a
sensible variation in the pulse. Courage, as is well known,
arises from a conviction of the strength, which is relative
to the energy of the contractions of the heart. The larger
and stronger the heart is, comparatively to the other parts
pf the body, and the more powerfully this organ drives the
blood into the arteries, the greater, in general, is the
courage resulting from it. But when the courageous man
abuses this physical quality, concentrating all his powers
in the heart, and therefore in the system of the circulation
of the blood, in order to increase their motions, there must,
of necessity, this evil ensue, that the system of the circula-
tion of the blood passes from an excess of strength and ac-
tivity to that of depression ; a transit which corresponds to
the principle of the physicians of the mechanical sect; a
swim, tono laxitas. The strength of the heart and arte-
ries, by excess of exercise, slackens, and the whole system
of the circulation falls into a like debility ; a debility which
Brown designates as indirect. The prostration of the vital
powers of the heart causes the contractions of its ventricles
to be languid, slow, and uncertain, and consequently the
pulse to be small, weak, deep, unequal, and often intermit-
tent ; and, instead of being energetic, strong, full, ar‘d ro-
bust, as it is found to be in a man moderately courageous,
it becomes the index of the state of depression and prostra-
tion of the organic functions when this passion is exercised
beyond the limits of moderation.
Equally fatal are the effects produced upon man by im-
petuous love. Whether the passion, thus intense, be caused
by physical wants, or whether it is inflamed by a heated
imagination ; in both cases, either the man possesses the
beloved object with delight, or ardently desires to Possess
it; in the first case, he is always in a state of excitement
Irons its presence, which does not fail to inflame him more
and more ; and the fear of losing it, whilst it is in his pos-
session, joined to the ardour which lie feels in approaching
it, are both of them continual stimuli, which keep him in
a state of orgasm. The heart palpitates, instead of smile
lating regularly ; the arteries, which follow its direction,
contract themselves imperfectly, and the pulse cannot then
but be agitated, quick, and unequal, and subsequently be-
comes small, slow, close, weak, deep, and nut unfrequently
intermittent.

in the other viscera.
It is a constant phenomenon to see the vital powers fall
into a profound depression after a paroxysm of auger ; and
its constancy is maintained by the loss of the many efforts
made' by life, when raised to that degree to which it ar-
rives by means of the paroxysm of anger. The rapid and
tumultuous motions in which the exercise of anger consists,
do not differ from so many convulsive efforts,which, according
to the law of the animal economy, must fatigue the organs,
and enfeeble the functions ; and this general asthenical
state of the body is sensibly indicated by the pulse, which,
from being vehement, hard, quick, and elevated, as in the
first corning on of anger, becomes small, weak, deep, un-
equal, and often intermittent, after the paroxysm of this
more than dangerous passion.
We will here beg leave just to enquire a
little into some few of the above remarks.
A good actor, says Dr. Rucco, should place his
hand upon the part illustrative of the passion he
would wish to depict, so that Romeo, when
anxious to paint his hope of recovering Juliet,
should lay his hand "on the capillary vessel of
the cutaneous organ," on which that passion
mainly operates. Lear too, when agreeably to
Garrick's alteration, he has recovered Cordelia,
should, as a token of joy, apply his digits to
the epigastric plexus,' because joy " generally
compresses " that interesting part. We recom-
mnd this to Mr. Keau's attention, when lie next
undertakes Lear, though, at the same time, we
fear that such a scientific display of joy will
be mistaken for evidence of a bowel complaint.
The Doctor's remark that " ambition when im-
moderate, is the cause of many physical evils ;"
is striking,—not to say original ; indeed we know
not where to find its parallel, except in
the novel truism of Mr. George Colman, the
younger (fifty years 'old at the least) that
" time past never returns." But our good
Doctor's moral reflections are all steeped in equal
originality. " Man," he proceeds to remark,
" by a wise ordination of Providence, is not able
to attain every thing in this vale of tears." Cer-
tainly not ; or the Marquis of Londonderry
would have procured his pension. He adds,
that " jealousy, envy and hatred, certainly de-
grade man ;" to which we reply, with Shakspeare—
" There needs no ghost come from the grave, my Lord,
To tell us that."
" Courage," adds our Doctor, "arises from a con-
viction of strength." What then made Alexander,
the most diminutive of heroes, a warrior ? What
made the poor, feeble, emaciated Narses the
conqueror of Genseric and his Vandals ? What
made Peter the Hermit, the most daring of
bigots ? Above all, what made our own Nelson, a
victor ? Was it the conviction of strength. Alas !
like the others just enumerated, this last was
among the weakest of mortals ; weak in frame,
still weaker in constitution. The fact is,
Doctor, that courage has a higher origin than
you seem willing to allow it. It is linked
up with reason, and those lofty qualties of mind
which received from birth, and strengthened from
education, are totally independent of the body.
" Fatal," repeats our M.D., " are the effects pro-
duced upon man by impetuous love." Very
true ; it is but last week that Sir Gregor
MacGregor was brought to Bow-street, for in-
dulging in this very passion, and what is worse,
was committed to Tothill-Fields Prison,
where he now lies—a princely proof of our
Doctor's sapient aphorism. We shall con-
clude this hasty desultory analysis with the
following " signs of the pulse," by the help of
which every man may handle his own wrist, and
ascertain his own complaint with the most satis-
factory and scientific address.
Ist. If the pulse, from being small, becomes suddenly
great, without the strength of the patient being improved,
it is a sign of death in lethargy and apoplexy, according to
the observations of Baglivi and Wapfer.
2d. The change of the rare and slow pulse into quick
and frequent is a favourable sign in ataxic fevers and by.
posthenic diseases.
3d. The softness and rarity which succeed the excessive
hardness and frequency of the pulse in acute byposthenic
fevers, is an excellent sign.
4th. According to the observations of Actuarius, the
elevated, vehement, and quick pulse announces the com-
mencement of a disease in one or more vital organs ; and
the small, frequent, and weak pulse indicates, on the
contrary, the long duration of a disorder, which finally suc-
ceeds in impoverishing and overpowering the vital powers.
sth. The thinness, frequency, and hardness of the pulse
show the state of irritation, or crudity, as it is called by
medical practitioners. If the pulse continues thus in the
successive periods of acute diseases, after the epocba of the
concoction, it is a sign evidently unfavourable ; for it is
then supposed that the crisis has not taken place there, or
that, if it does take place subsequently, it will not be true
or salutary.
6th. The frequent, small, irregular, and thin pulse,
whilst it generally indicates the concourse of spasm, irrita-
tion, and weakness, is also the worst sign in pestilential
fevers, in typhus, in spurious angina, in false peripneu-
monia, and in epidemic dysenteries.
7th. The sudden change of the great and full pulse into
the frequent, small, thin, and irregular pulse, is a fatal sign
in acute diseases.
Bth. The greatness and fulness which succeed to the
smallness, weakness, frequency, and irregularity of the
pulse, is a sign undoubtedly favourable in acute diseases.
9th. The pulse which vacillates and changes its form
every instant, is always a fatal sign. This vacillation, when
it exists, is observed at one time strong, at another time
weak, at one time rare, at another frequent, at one time
quick, at another slow : when the pulse thus vacillates and
changes, it is a sign that the pericardium, or the heart, or
even both, are affected by inflammation.
10th. When the beating of the pulse becomes very sen-
sible throughout the whole of the arterial tree, in the pre-
sence of acute diseases, it is an unfavourable sign, because
such a phenomenon arises from the deep and general in-
flammation which is precisely indicated by this sensible
beating throughout the whole arterial tree.
11th. The frequency, weakness, and inequality of the
pulse is an unfavourable sign, as it indicates the organic

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in the second case,
transport, whilst he not possess the beloved object with
ase, that in which the person does
ar-
dently desires to possess it ; in this second case the effects
are still more alarming. The beloved object who is absent,
plunges him into a
state of deep depression ;
or withheld from him, keeps the lover in Et state of conti-
nual internal tumult, which gradually consumes and ex-
hausts the vital powers, and at length
hence, from the state of prostra-
tion of the vital powers of the heart arises the irregularity
of its contractions, and hence the smallness, deepness, ra-
rity, and inequality of the pulse, which is often confounded
with the intermittency of its beat ; and such is the prostra-
tion of the organic functions in some young and despairing
lovers, who have been deprived of the beloved object, that
it requires the most profound sagacity of a skilful and con-
summate
physician not to confound this deplorable state of
lifeawith other severer and more dangerous diseases. And
to how many fatal disorders are not patients of this descrip-
tion exposed, when their case is intrusted to a person who
is not sufficiently versed in the study of the human pas-
sions !
The passion which is hurtful to man, even when mode-
rately used, is anger, rage, disdain, or desperation : anger,
besides degrading man, inasmuch as it is the effect of ig-
noble and base felings, likewise changes his constitution
and health. In the strong exercise of this brutal passion,
a more or less tumultuous and rapid internal movement is
generated, which spreads itself especially over the vascular
sanguineous system ; for this reason the heart redoubles
and multiplies its efforts, whilst it performs, as expeditiously
as possible, its rapid and strong contractions, from which
arise the accelerated course of the blood and of the beatings
of the pulse : to this mode of existence of the system of the
circulation of the blood corresponds the then active exer-
cise of respiration ; because the lungs also multiply the
number of inspirations within a given time ; the contrac-
tions of the muscles the face exhibit in the physiognomy
the image of a state of convulsion, not less violent than

affections of the breast, according to Hoffmann's observations.
12th.—
Tbe smallness, rarity, and weakness (approach-
ing toinsensibility) of the pulse, is an unfavourable sign,
especially in syncope.
13th. Tire pulse which grows weaker, proceeding from
the greatness to the insensibility of its oscillations, is the
worst sign, as it indicates the successive exhaustion of vitality.
In taking leave of our author, we cannot but
thank him for the very navel information he has
imparted. We learn from his Treatise three
things, (just three more than we ever yet learned
from one Medical Treatise), first, that the sen-
sibility consequent on genius originates in lean-
ness, that therefore the living skeleton was, ten
to one, a poet ; secondly, that courage is the con-
viction of strength ; and thirdly, that love is a
fatal passion, upon
winch principle Sir Gregor
MCGregor bids fair, In default of bail, to termi-
nate his careeringloriously in Tothill-fields.

Sir JOHN YIELDING, the famous police-ma-
gistrate, who was blind, had a pipe fixed from the carriage
to the coach-box, through which he could cexiverse with
the coachman without being heard by others. When his
chariot was stopped by any obstruction is the streets, he
inquired of the coachman what kind of carriage, &c. occa-
sioned it, and it was his humour then to put oat his head,
and shout out in his usual peremptory tone, " Take that cart
out of the way ;" or, You, Sir, in that chaise, drive on !"
This occasioned great astonishment how he who was blind
could perceive the cause of the stoppage, and was a sourer
of great amusement to Sir John,...,Dr. Witchiner',4
" Traveller's Qracte."