Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1840-09-23
RELIGIOUS MISCELLANY.
From the N. Y. Register.
SUNDAY SICKNESS.


o. an inquiry into The nature and cause
Of a disease Of the TgphUs kind-which
though Of long standlmS and general
preuatence, has meUe1 been noticed By
any Medical zaoriter.
DR.. Easy, among other papers, has CIV
en- me one containing the particulars of
the disease, which is represented by the
patients as a natural, but which he thinks
bears the symptoms of moral disorder.
J shall give his history of it in the pres
ent number.
/. There is a disease at this time too prev
client in our neighborhood, an account of
which is net to be found ia our popular
books Of medicine; | shall therefore en-.
deavor to communicate some particulars
respecting it.
The disease to which refer, is evil
IDENTIFY of the intern1itting kind and in all
cases that have fallen under my notice,
has attacked the patients by violent par
oxysms, which RETURN every eventh>a2y.
, 1t may be thought TO SAVIOR of superstition
TO mention1lt, and yet It is fact, and
therefore must not be passed over, that the
paroxysms return on the Lords day, on
which account the diseaSe~is called the
Sunday sickness; and the faculty know
| it by no other name than Diei DOmmlca
m0rtus Ga account Of its periodical at
tacks, some have thought it singular
] kind Of ague, especially asst is attended
wish a great degree of GOODNESS, though
dc not perceive the shiverng usual in lha
complaint. | have observed the parox
vsms to commence at different periods
but generally in the morning, and IN ma
my cases before the patient has left hi
bed, and ffsquently they make him indis
posed TO use till a litter hour than usual
: A coldnf:ss has been noticed about the re
: gion Of the heart, and dulIness in th
head WITCH Supplies the brain not unusu
: ally succeeds. This is followed by yawn
5 ing and a strt of Eethargy. The patien
is sometimet deprived of The use of hi
D limbs, so thh- he finds himself indispose
to walk to the hbuSe Of God Some, II
/ deed. have gong up to the solemn assent
It ", but they have. generally entered it la
+ er thar their neigbbors and even ther
5. the symptoms of yanning or letharg
/ haVesbeen so violent, hat they have fai
d en- into dead sleep, even when the preach
g er has been delivering tie most solem
Y truth ia the most animated manner.
L The disease appears to stupefy tnos
E. who are subject 10 it, so that however The
= may appear 10 suffer, they are seldom
II ever heard 10 complain. | have know
e persons under other diseases mourn {
lie account of their confinement from publ
n. worship-but the victims of this extrao
n binary disorder were never heard TO con
US plain, My soul longeth, yea even fail
as eth for the courts of the Lord my hea
C. and my flesh crieth out for the liviI
NJ God, when shall come and appear ;
Id fore God
was at first greatly surprised aft
ne hearing thai a patient could not getto pr
he lie worship. to find hira the next day
cir active as if he had not been subject to a
En kind of indisposition but | have sin
IN found it very common afterthe paroxysI
ire lare removed. for the patient to appear p'
IS lfectly well till the approach oftne next s.
ks bath though most of the faculty agl
Ind that there is a low feverish heat to be P
;-Iceived during the days of the rnter'
the (which is called ferris niuads. eof worl'
Fur- fever There seems also to be loss