Litchfield enquirer., 1831-05-19
SYMPTOMS.

For the benefit of Representatives. of all classes, and of both sexes, well as hyserca ladies' we give iI- sertion to an amusing extract iro lhinks-i- i-to-my' self" which, its first appearance several years ago, attributed to the pen of Mr. Canning. lt is sel dom that we meet with such playful satire, enlisted tn the cause ofbencvolence and virtue, as in rhnks- l-to.myselt." For the benefit of the few who have not read the wsrk it will be suficenttO premise that the narrator and chief aciOr is persuaded by his par enls to pay court to Miss Twist, rich heiress whose fathers estate Is contagious tO his paternal dO mains; but he is himself attached to Emily Mande. vile, daughter ofthe vicar. He is sadly tornented with Dumping at his heart, the true cause of which he discovers in the following manner :-Joar. Heaish
 {" One day, ,>as l was walking in the gar- den with Mrs. Vaudeville and the females of the family, it came into my head that rose ;lii ii would like to have beautiful moss
 Mvself m go and ssfeah ssfeeiahfrsa: fe s 1Ninks Ito at that very moment I had such an extra- ordinary seizure of the pumping at my heart, that was ready to drop: but what appeared to me more strange was, that could not go to her, do what I would for the first time in my life, felt sort of dread of her. While Miss Vaudeville had been questioning me about the ball at Ni- coium Castle, little before, thought she looked displeased with me and when expected it of her as friend, that she would have liked to hear of the notice that had been taken of me, I observed she walked quite away :-I had never quavrelled with her in all my fife, nor she with me :-I would have done any thing to have served her, or pleased her; and now that felt a. fraid of her, still seemed to want to serve her, and please her more than ever :--- Thinks-l-to-myself, certainly am be- witched ;-soon after, she came up to us of her own accord Thinks-I-to-mysclf, now I'll give the rose so went to her with it. and was going to offer it !; but my tongue suddenly got so perfectly dry in my mouth, that I'll be hanged if l could speak word. Thinks I-to-myself, I am certainly going to die. Twas so frightened, I got away as soon after. as ! could but the pumping continued all the way home, worse think than over. was afraid to tell my mother of it, because knew she would send for Mr. Bolus, aud that always ended in such severe and long continued discipline, gen- orally beginning with an emesic, which tore me to pieces, that I always kept my maladies to myself as long as. leDald. .
 As my sister was jnst co;ae home. asked her about it; but she only laughed at me, though could not tell why: got into my fathers library one morning, in or der to try if could find my case in any of the physical books there, If which he had store. Iook'd into a good many, just running over the symptoms of each, which caught my eye, as being in capital leiters thus, SYMPTOMS,-and it is past all conception what variety of diseases n seemed to have for Jumping only was no- thing the more read, the more symp- toms detected ;-I was not aware of . hundredth part of what suffered, till the book suggested them :--I plainly sawaslsy case to be (at least thought SO then) q complication of the classes, orders, esn- era, and species of disease, that had ever afflicted the race of man. AsI went along, and questioned myself as to the several symptoms of the different disorders as laid down in the book. E found | had not only bumpings. but dreadful pains in my head and Joins, with a weariness of limbs {; stretching. yawning, shivering and shaking. which are pretty plain signs. as any body must allow. Ofan approaching fever; he'd a rigor or chillness, pains in ny back. difli- calty of breathing. had violent prick ' ing pain i'd one of tho sides, deep down a-