Star.
London, England, 1810-12-20 00:00:00

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.1 -not &wilier that In thisin.oobitiiHtge Rill
have any influence upon the disorder.
Have you per Met with. a case, in your practice,
that you consider as parallel to that of his. Majesty ?
if age is necessary to make up the parallel, perhaps not.
Have you ever khown a person, as old as his Ma-
jesty, and with the same defect of sight, recover from
a derangement of mind ?—I have never seen a person,
at his 'Majesty's age, labouring under a s:milsr cm-
, plaint to his Majesty's, taking altAhe circumstances
of the complaint together.
In the general run of cases, which have come with,
in your knowledge, in the course of your practice, has
increased age, in your-opinion, had any influence on
the recovery of the patient, or otherwise ?--Not, where
the case was exactly similar to his Majesty.
I understood you to say, you had never met with a
case exactly similar to his Majesty's ?—Taking age,
and other circumstances of his Majesty, into consi-
deration. "
In the general run of cases, which have come under
your observation, do yon conceive the age of the pa-
tient to have had any influenn upon his complaint ?
—lt may be difficult to answer that question, without
stating the particular species of his Majesty's com-
plaint : his Majesty's complaint does not appear, to
me, to be connected with age ; it is a complaint, pro-
duced by an- accidental circumstance. which would
have produced that complaint, at any time, in his
Majesty, during the last twenty-two years. There is
no mark of age in the symptoms ; there are none of
those symptoms, which usually attend complaints of
that description, arising from age ; and it appears to
me, therefore, that his Majesty is as likely to recover,
notwithstanding his age, from this complaint, as he
would from any other accidental complaint he might
labour under.
Have you known several instances of persons, who
have laboured under derangement of mind, at parti.
cular and different periods of their lives, with inter-
vals between the dates of derangement ?—Several. •
Have you considered such persons as more or lece
likely to recover, in consequence of advanced age ?
The opinion must depend upon the symptoms of the
case at the time.
Do you, then, consider increased years, as a cir-
cumstance not bearing, in itself, or carrying, in itself,
any influence upon a complaint of this nature ?
Generally speaking, age Would have a considerable
influente ; but no symptoms, which in general arise
from age in other person;, have made their appear-
ance in his Majesty : I therefore conclude, that age
will have no effect here.
Do you conclude, that age, in an unbroken constiN
tution, has no influence upon the probability of reco-
very, or otherwise, from this disorder ?—Provided I
saw no symptoms of the effect of age in the indivi-
dual, I should say not.
Can you at all contemplate, in your own mind, any
'period in which you think his Majesty's recovery
likely ?—No.
You attended the King in the year 1391, fpr the
first time ?—Yes.
Did you sign the bulletins that were issued in that
illness ?—No.
Did you see the bulletins that were issued in that
illness ?—Yes, I did.
Did you concur in the propriety of those bulletins,
as expressing the real state of the King's health tq the
public?—Yes, I did.
Did you concur in the opinion, expressed to the
public by the physicians, by the cessatioa of the bul-
letins, that the King was perfectly recovered ?—To
the best of my recollect on. The King was recovered,
and fully capable of doing business : there were some
little remains of hurry about his Majesty : nothing
further, that I have any recollection of.
Do you mean to say, that those Marks of hurry,
about his Majesty, were apparent at the time the bul-
letins ceased, and the Physicians thereby announced
to the public, that his Majesty was perfectly reco-
vered ? —The syMptoms of hurry, certainly, occasio-
nally remained.
Were the symptoms of hurry, such as to create
a necessity for any restraint upon his Majesty, after
the bulletins ceased ?—Not till a relapse took place.
A relapse then did, in point of fact, take place,
after the illness in 1801 ?--A relapse took place after
the bulletins ceased.
What interval was there,between the cessation of the
bulletins and the relapse have no means of ascer-
taining, at this moment, when the bulletins ceased.
What length of time, do you conceive, took place,
between the cessation of the bulletins and the relapse ?
-a-I have a perfect recollection of the relapse, but I
have no recollection when the bulletins ceased.
Between the cessation of the bulletins, and the-
relapse, did his Majesty transact public business
with his servants ?—His Majesty's servants had ac-
cess to him.
Had they access after the usual manner, without
the presence or permission of any medical attendant,
or by-any person deputed by any medical attendant?
—Certainly.
Nobody was ever present, at the time the inter-
views took place between his Majesty and his ser-
vants ?—Not to my knowledge.
When and where, did the relapse decidedly shew
itself ?—At the Queen's house, on the 14th and 15th •
of March.
By whom was it first perceived ?—I really cannot
call that to my recollection.
Had you been in the habit of visiting the King,
occasionally, from the time of the cessation of the bul-
letins, to the period of the relapse decidedly taking
,place ?—I had got ceased to see the King, daily.
When did you, yourself, perceive the symptoms of
a decided relapse in the King ?—I presume, either on
that evening or the next morning.
How long did that relapse continue ?—But a very
short time, with any violence.
How long was it, before his Majesty was restored
to the state in which his Physicians had reported him
to be perfectly recovered ?—lt is impossible for use to
charge my memory with the number of days, at
this distance of time; to the best of my recollection, a
few days only.
When did you discontinue your attendance upon
the King, altogether, in the year If3ol ?---On the 3d
of June.
Had the King's hurry, which you have described,
entirely ceased, before you ceased attending upon the
King think, not entirely.
Do you conceive those hurries, were vestiges of and
dependent upon the mental complaint of the King ?
—Certainly.