The subject of this case was a man rather more than fifty years of
age, who had industriously followed the business of a gardener,
leading a life of remarkable temperance and sobriety. The commencement
of the malady was first manifested by a slight trembling of the left
hand and arm, a circumstance which he was disposed to attribute to his
having been engaged for several days in a kind of employment requiring
considerable exertion of that limb. Although repeatedly questioned, he
could recollect no other circumstance which he could consider as
having been likely to have occasioned his malady. He had not suffered
much from Rheumatism, or been subject to pains of the head, or had
ever experienced any sudden seizure which could be referred to
apoplexy or hemiplegia. In this case, every circumstance occurred
which has been mentioned in the preceding history.
CASE II.
The subject of the case which was next noticed was casually met with
in the street. It was a man sixty-two years of age; the greater part
of whose life had been spent as an attendant at a magistrate's office.
He had suffered from the disease about eight or ten years. All the
extremities were considerably agitated, the speech was very much
interrupted, and the body much bowed and shaken. He walked almost
entirely on the fore part of his feet, and would have fallen every
step if he had not been supported by his stick. He described the
disease as having come on very gradually, and as being, according to
his full assurance, the consequence of considerable irregularities in
his mode of living, and particularly of indulgence in spirituous
liquors. He was the inmate of a poor-house of a distant parish, and
being fully assured of the incurable nature of his complaint, declined
making any attempts for relief.
CASE III.
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