The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-12-19 00:00:00

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otber circumstances to make me doubt of his
,y recovery) than there having elapsed another
oir4lit, without his being at present fortrarder
Jibe was at that time. , •
• doe his Physicians been disappointed in their et.
of the tinettutions iu the King's disorder,
; bet9th of November ? They have nut been
4,,,,,,,wated in their general view of the case;. at
itarticular period of remission of his Majesty's
they have entertained a hope that it might
I los,on a uearer approach to recovery than it has
R'
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When were you first called upon to attend the
in your professional capacity ? On the 14th
4 rebroary, 1804, , began a regular attendance
"ur,„ ply Maksty. Re may have occasionally asked
~,tm•tngi) on the suOject of kis health, before
t buthi out as a consultatios of a regular Physi.

.n.
NI you attend the King during the whole pro.
eri of that disorder ? Yes, I did.
0-11,1 you refer that disorder to any assignable
Yes.OW •
pj you think that a patient who has been afflict.'
sa with menial derangement, frequently, during
bij hits, iimore or loss likely to recover from the
iiiiunkr under Which he may labour at the present
time, th,in if he hail never been so afflicted I
ibutil3 conceive it must depend upon the effect* ap.
produced by each attack of the ,disorder..;
to the case of the King, do you think, th,it his
he-n afflicted three times previously with the
thsurder, makes him olore or less likely to
waver from the present attack? More likely.
D, you take his age into Consideration, when
ails wer that question ? I do.
You hare stated, that the greater number of pa.
tims, as far as your cup/thence and infuriation
'we guile, have recovered from attacks of 'a situ'.
hi nature ;in speaking upon that subject you
ioctude patients of the age at which the King has
now arrived? No; the cases that I know distinct.
ly of, respecting parsons of the King's age, have
been too few for we to speak particularly to that
effrtt•
floc you known any cases of patients above se-
wily years of age ? I have known eases of derange.
nide persons above 70 years of age ; I have
t''wu no case similar to his Majesty's, in any
pert n of that age.
ft those cases of derangement of patients above
70 years of age, have any of them recovered ?
lo derangement, if the delirium of fevut may be so
certainly many have.
110 you, speaking medically, consider the deli-
rium of fever to come under the description of de-
nugesnent of mind ? It certainly does not come
eider the general eharacter of insanity ; no mote
does his Majesty's case.
What description would you give of his Missies.
tyo4 case; is it merely the deliritetu of fever ? No,
It is not merely the delirium of fever ; nor is it
soy common case of 'insanity ; it is a derangement
Shahid with more or less of fever, and liable to
accessions and remissions. - • •
liar it at times happened, dories your different
stteuthaces upon the King, la-dborillers of this
mein, that the. King has boo ofigeted,with &leer
Throup the whole course of it, his Majesty has
sot uniformly been affected with fever ; the begia..
sing of the last attack, and the present attack
. 'hied is all I can personally sprit top have been
attended with fever; and fever has ocoasionally oc-
curred during the course of them.
Has tittle bequ, at any time, in the 016 daring
the coarse of these disorders, .derauderamet without
km.? yes.. '
During the periods at which derengetthenthas oee
awed without fever, how would you then describe
the disease? I can give it au OWN term than de.

nngement.
Hare you seen. patients above seventy years of
ate, who have laboured under derangesneat without
bier? I have seen cases of insanity in persons
above Selt toy years of age. • '
, .
Har thiise patients recovered? • tsso:
Have tio:e ititients, or anytif these, trittlnitynn
lave seen labouring wider insanity, and
leafy years of age, been attacked after the egsool
mein) ? I believe not.
Were they patints, er any of them, who had
:eperienced attacks of insanity In the earlier parts '
ef their lives, and had intervals of sanity between
gym attacks, or were they *lnds who bed been
afflicted with one continued Insanity ? I Can only
speak decidedly ot• one case where there have been
intervals of sanity.;
.Is the patient no* dead Yes.
llow long was it from the floseof the last attack
'la that patient to his death 3 I did sot'see it at
the beginning, but I believe fotir or five years.
Do you know how long previous to the age of
Meaty the last attack which terminated only in
dasth had commenced t I believe very much 'boot
age of seventy.
What is the present state of the King's bodily
hilith, in your opinion ? There is no material in-
lay that his Majesty appear; to have ,suffered In
hi bodily health.
Is his Majesty's conatitntioa what may be called,
Perfectly sound ? Perfectly. -
Do you think a perfectly sound'Constitutitin em.„
slitting with a complete. mental distemper, a favour.
able symptom towards recovery from a mental disor.
‘4lll In such cases, where the mental disorder has
,onnsttended with any affection of the bodily health,
laboold consider the soundness of the constitution,
Nod perfect state if health, to be material to a per-
son's recovery.
You would have greater tropes from thocireum.
!tam of a sound constitution and bodily health ?
44 ones where the mental disorder had been con.
ocend with any affection of the body.
In the King's present disorder,. du you attribute
that disorder to any bodily derangement? Not
Does it nowdepeod upon anybedilyderesgement ?
It is connected with his bodily health, his bodily
health has been affested by his disorder.
Hu that affection of his bodily health, produced
!Ws a re.actien as to account for his present state
!together ? Ido not consider his Majesty's bodily
ocs Ith to have been the on of his disorder; but
Majesty's bodily health partbeen affected along
Oh the disorder, and made of the disorder.