Note 5 — A COMMENTARY UPON THE PRECEDING OBJECTS OF INQUIRY:

Aretæus asserts that immoderate perturbation of mind, consternation, fear, despondency, sudden and violent joy, immoderate laughter, &c. have produced apoplexy, (De Signis et Caus: Diut: Morb: Lib. 1, c. 7.) Forestus (p. 509) relates the case of a gentleman of plethoric habit, and hereditarily disposed to the disease, who, on receiving information of the sudden death of an intimate friend, was instantly seized with a tremor of the left foot, and soon afterwards with apoplexy. We beg to refer the reader to Dr. Cooke’s valuable and learned work on Nervous Disorders, vol. 1, p. 217, where the author has collected with much industry a variety of cases in illustration of this subject.