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

When did the King first begin to ask you any ques-
tions respecting his health, before you became a regu-
lar attendant upon the King never was consulted
by his Majesty, as a Physician, before; when I have
sees his Majesty he has sometimes mentioned circum-
stances of his health to me, but not having sent for
me as a Physician.
Did you give opinions to the King, or advice, or
prescribe, in consequence of those questions being
asked you ?—I never wrote a prescription, I believe.
-Did you give advice, or prescribe, verbally ?
.No. Questions that his Majesty may have asked
me (and I really am not sure that his Majesty asked
me any questions before) that have been merely in con-
versation.

You began to attend the King, regularly, on the
12th of February, 1804 ?—Yes.
Did you attend the King daring the whole pro-
gress of that disorder ?—Yes, I did.
Did you refer that disorder to any assignable
cause ?—Yes.

Do you think that a patient who has been afflicted
with mental derangement, frequently, during his
life, is more or less likely to recover from the disorder
under which he may labour at the present time, than
if he had been so afflicted ?—I should conceive it
must depend upon the effects apparently produced by
each attack of the disorder.

In the case of the King, do you think that his hav-
ing been afflicted three times previously with the same
disorder, makes him more or less likely to recover
from the present attack ?—More likely.
Do you take his age into consideration, when you
answer that question ?—I do.

You have stated that the greater number of patients,
as far as your experience and information have gone,
have recovered from attacks of a similar nature ; in
speaking upon that subject, do you include patients
of the' age at which the King has now arrived ?—No,
the eases that I know distinctly of, respecting persons
of the King's age, have been too few for me to speak
particularly to that effect.
Have you known any cases of patients above 70
years of age ?—I have known cases of derangement
of persons above sevent?years of age ; I have known
no case similar to his Majesty's, in any person of that
age.
In thi rases of derangement of patients above 70
have any of them recovered ?—ln de-
if the delirium of fever may be so called,
tny have.
peaking medically, consider the delirium
:ome under the description of derangement
•It certainly does not come under the go-
:ter of insanity ; no more does his Majes-

tription would you give of his Majesty's
merely the delirium of fever ? —No, it is
the delirium of fever ; nor is it any corn-
of insanity ; it is a derangement attended
or less of fever, and liable to accessions and

times happened, during your different at-
ipon the King, in disorders of this nature,
tg has been affected with fever?--Through
)urse of it, his Majesty has not uniformly
:ted with fever ; the beginning of the last
:he present attack, which is all I can per-
ly to, have been attended with fever; and
occasionally occurred during the course of

been, at any time, in the Ring, during
of :hese disorders, derangement without
es.

the period at which derangement has oc-
thout fever, how would you then describe
can give it no other term than de-

seen patients, above seventy years of age,
ibotned under derangement without fever?
seen cases of insanity in persons above
-s of age.
lose patients recovered ?—No.
lose patients, or any of them, whom you
‘bouring under insanity, and above seventy
been attacked after the age of seventy ?
not.

ey patients, or any of them, who had ex.
ittacks of insanity in the earlier parts of
and had intervals of sanity between those
were they patients who had been afflicted
continued insanity ?—I can only speak de.
one case where there have been intervals

patient now dead ?—Yes.
---, was it from the time of the last attack
lient to his death ?—I did not see it at the
but I believe four or five years.
know how long previous to the age of se-
_..s; attack which terminated only in death
commenced ?—I believe very much about the

.y.
the present state of the King's bodily
your opinion ?—There is no material injury
Majesty appears to have suffered in his bodily

Majesty's constitution what may be called
ind ?—Perfectly.
think a perfectly sound constitution co-ex-
complete mental distemper, a favourable
. towards recovery from a mental disorder ?
cases, where the mental disorder has been at-
any affectionoc the bodily health, I should
soundness of the constitution, and a per-
health, to be material to a person's recovery.
ild have greater hopes from the circum-
sound constitution and bodily health ?
There the mental disorder had been connec-
iy affection of the body.
King's present disorder, do you attribute
to any bodily derangement ?—Not ori-

ow depend upon any bodily derangement?
inected with his bodily health ; his bodily
been affected by his disorder.
affection of his bodily health produced
:tion as to account for his present state al-
do not consider his Majesty's bodily
,ve been the origin of his disorder ; but
bodily health has been affected along
disorder, and made part of the disorder.
any symptoms now attending his Ma-
y health, by the removal of which you
the recovery of his Majesty's reason would
?•.d'lis Majesty has a tendency to fever)

• sometimes existing, sometimes not existing, the re.
moval of which tendency would contribute to his Ma-
jesty's restoration, in my opinion.
Has there been, during the present illness, at any
period, a total absence of fever ?—Yes.
During the total absence of fever, in the present
illness, has, at any time, the derangement of mind
continued ?—I believe never, in a great degree.
In any degree ?—Yes.
You have stated that it has happened, that the King
has had some hours sleep in the course of the night,
and has not been better after that sleep ; do you reckon
that a favourable or an unfavourable symptom, in
regard to the King's recovery ?—I should think it in-
different, in regard to his ultimate recovery.
Would it lead you to suppose, that his recovery,
was not likely to be so speedy as if sleep produced its
desired effect ?—lt would not lead me to form any
certain conclusion, with regard to that effect.
When you attended the King, in the year 1804,
did you sign the Bulletins at that time ?—Yes.
Do you recollect the last Bulletin that was put
forth to the public ?—No.
What it intended that Bulletin should convey to
the public that his Majesty was completely recovered ?
—I apprehend that the Bulletin must have been in-
tended to convey an idea that his Majesty was per-
fectly recovered, so far as regarded a competency to
transact public limitless.
Are the Committee to understand, that when you
apply the words a perfectly recovered" to the King,
you apply them in the same sense as you would to
any private individual, that he was perfectly reco-
vered, for the transaction of any business, public or
private, which might belong to him, and to the entire
management of his affairs l—Yes.
The Committee then are to understand, that at the
cessation of the bulletins, in the year 1804, the King
was so completely recovered ?—I apprehend so.
After the cessation of the bulletins, did you visit
the King as his Physician, in 1804?—After the ces-
sation of the bulletins,lhis Majesty went out of town;
I was not with him out of town • he returned to
town at no very long intervals, and then his Majesty's
Physicians attended him. I believe it was in the
month of August that bis Majesty went down to
Weymouth, and from that time till the end of Octo-
ber, Sir Francis Millman and myself were one of us
always with his Majesty ;. for the greatest part of the
time I was with his Majesty.
Were you and Sir Francis Millman the only atten-
dants upon his Majesty at Weymouth ?—Yes.
At any period subsequent to the bulletins in 1804,
did you perceive in the King any flurried manner
which excited your attention ?—HisMajesty was more
liable to hurries ; but I believe that at any period of
any day he was perfectly competent to transact busi-
ness.
Do you consider the hurries, of which you have
been speaking, to have been any vestiges of, or at all
dependent upon the King's malady ?-1 do.
You have said, that fever has accompanied the
King's malady, and that that. fever has been inter-
mitting during the course of hismalady, but that you
, did not consider the fever to be the cause of his ma-
lady ; do you conceive the cause of his malady to have
been the affliction of the King for the illness of his
daughter ?—I do.
You have said, that you do not consider the King's
to be a case of ordinary insanity ?—I did. '
What is the cause in your opinion subsisting in the
King's constitution, which renders him liable to these
attacks of mental derangement ?—lt is a peculiarity
of constitution,of which I can givenodistinct account.
Can you give any distinct account of the cause of
the accession of fever which sometimes attends the
`mental derangement of his Majesty ?—ln the disor-
ders which his Majesty has had similar to the present,
and in the present disorder, the whole frame has been
more or less disordered, both body and mind.
Can you form any opinion of the cause of that fact ?
—I conceive, with reference to the present case, that
tlha cause was certainly owing to his Majesty's anxi-
ety on the subject of his daughter's illness ; that cause
produced, from the peculiarity of his Majesty's con-
stitution, the derangement both in body and mind
which constitutes his present disorder.
Are you able to afford the Committee any infor-
mation as to the peculiarity of that constitution, in
what it consists conceive the peculiarity to be
simply, that his Majesty has appeared liable to attacks
of disorder similar to his present ; but the cause of his
being liable I cannot at all assign.
Has the remission of the fever, after the last consi-
derable access of the disorder, been as entire and com-
plete as after any former attack, in this now subsist-
ing indisposition of his Majesty ?—I consider the pre-
sent remission to hear date from the evening of the
10th of this month ; during that interval, from the
10th to the time that I left his Majesty yesterday
morning, I should conceive the intermission is as per.
fect as during the same number of days in any former
intermission of his present illness.
Do you conceive the defect of his Majesty's sigbt
to be a circumstance favourable or unfavourable to
his ultimate recovery ?—I should consider it as a cir-
cumstance of inconvenience, but not a circumstance
at all prejudicial to his ultimate recovery.
Do you conceive it to be a circumstance having
any influence upon the duration of his illness, and
tending either to prolong or to shorten it ?—.I should
not consider it likely either to prolong or to.shorten
his illness to such a period when his Majesty was de-
scribed, in my answer to a former question, to have
been considered capable of transacting public busi-
ness ; 'after that period, I should conceive it of use to
his Majesty, in preventing the subsequent hurries that
were alluded to.

Is the Committee to understand Ton as saying,
that you consider the defect of his Majesty's sight as
a circumstance neither likely to retard nor likely to
accelerate the period of his recovery, so as that his
Majesty shall arrive at that state which you call a
fit one for the discharge of business ?—I conceive it
to be an indifferent circumstance, as to that.
You have stated, that since you were examined be-
fore the Privy Council, his Majesty has been worse
for a few days, and since that better again ? —Yes.
Is the Committee to understand from that, that
since the examination before the Privy Council, his
Majesty has had a relapse ?—Yes.
State, whether since that relapse, or in consequence
of that relapse, you have the same confidence and
expectation of a speedy recovery that you had before ?
would .not alter my opinioti of the proleable time

of his Majesty's reeriery, though I can hardly pro-
nounce it speedy.
Do you know whether during the former attacks
of his Majeity, after any remission of the disorder 4
there was any renewed increase of his illness ?—There
.have teen several.
Has the apprehension of a recurrence of mental
malady in the mind of any patient, after repeated
attacks, any, and what effect, in producing the re-
newal of such attack ?—I should conceive, an appre-
hension in the mind of the patient would not tend to
produce any recurrence of the disorder.
Does the advance of his Majesty's age, since his
first attack in 1788, increase or diminish your expec-
tation of his. Majesty's ultimate recovery ?—Abstract
tedly considered, his Majesty's greater as would cer-
tainly be considered an unfavourable circumstance ;
but when I have regard to the peculiar circumstances
of his Majesty's disorder, I think his advanced age
does not alter my own expectation of his ultimate re-
covery.
Would the greater pressure of public business now
than in the year 1788, have any, and what effectsan
your opinion, as to accelerating or retarding his Ma-
jesty's complete recovery ?—I really am not eompe-
tent to give any distinct answer to that question.
Do you think more or less favourably of the pro-
bable issue of his Majesty's malady, from there being
such an assignable cause for that malady as you have
stated ?—I should think more favourably. [Withdrew.

(To be continued.)

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