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Illness In History

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Parent Issue
Day
9
Month
February
Year
1883
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Public Domain
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On the part which Déath plaj s in human aff tirs it would bo trite to expatiatê; luit we have recentlv vatched by the tdck-beds of several men of note, and aetn the eiïeots, as they IlloesH in Iüstor.v. il' anyone cared to write ;t 1). ok on the subject be woukl Ihul iio lack of materials to serve for mèlancholy, enobliag, or even humorous retlectiüiis. One incident wlüch St. Simon records f the luug and. la t ïllness of Louis XIV. belongs !e s to the domain oí' liigh rnedy than ot broriri farce. Whenever, he relates, the King's symptoms took au alarming turn ther6 waa a perfect sUimpede of courtiers from tbe royal apartmeats towani those of the Dike of Orleaup, who it was kn iwii would be Itegent. As KOOta as theptiysicians gave a inore favorable account of tlieir patiënt, back bvaiupert-d the berd, at a tninute's notioe, lest the hou should actuully rnnao hlin nirrtin and vent liis J # fcj ' J ■ ■ 1 - ■ M ■ W - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ure on the .hsent jaoküls. II', again, we ciassify maladies, an;! show tbe effects wliioh gouc or even tt indigestiona of great men have IükI i:i the desüuies of oui cace, the stock if facta ia bewüdering from theiï number. Napoleon issaid to have been less than bimself at Leipsic from having eaten to excess of a shoulder of mutton ftni onions. IÍ is neuhew was eertainly suffeiiug from a cruel complaint wben he suífered himself to be pushed Into th war whioli terminattd - foi him - at Sedan. Mr KingUKe 8 account iiuie mannor in whieli the invasión of the Crimea came to be determined upon is by no mean impossible. The Duke ot' New-castle, he declares, had made np his mind that the experiition should take pi ice, and had drafted a dispatch to Lord Raglán, which vixtuallj left the latter no option but togo forwarti. The dispatch he, of course, ri-ad to his -..-il't(irnit hut. lïrftvilïllRl V t.hf Hl bers of the Cabinet had dinwi together. "In these days," observes Mr. K'Dglake, "the physiologis1 will s, tak [ the coüdilkm iato whicli the i umai: brain is nturally brougbtwbeii itrests after anxious labors, and the unalyiic chemist in ty regí ei bat he had nut au oppoitunitv of to?tino; the fo .ui o! WlUCri W1H lUiilialUli ilU'l p:i i.i. with H view tp cieUct the proeiice o: soDoe nareotie poisQn. .,.." la other word, the Governuient had dined hitbertuo we)l or too ill; th.e Government feil a-deep; the Duke oblaiued m drowsy assent to al! sis views, and went "iiis o.vn ray. Chatham go:t was au impor aiit factor iu Eng isti ■ ,- - íc tin; ng soua ol Ibf mu t even uil yprfi-á of tlie rt-ii of Gr orge III Diiïi'ig lii.s tiiird aii'i altogother milorhrtnsStn Afiii'ínisttlion il efl !nm. or. rather, the dist-ase in his constitu migra'ed fion thelootto ttiè li&td, Por uaany months he waa in grate o( meutal putalysis, wliil, hl a stóboidinates were n!y too active. At Ust the gout rtturiiwl, and the cloud was liftefl froni his brain. Hut ia the interval the i.-tal Act impoting the Te; Daties luid iurtt'.cr etnbtttered ïhe quarrel betweén Ureat Britain and the Ampriean Colonief. CliHtuaiu's suppressed gout did much lo spijt the English üice in two. i

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