ABSTRACT
Madness is sometimes produced by bodily pain, particularly I believe of a diseased liver, like convulsion and epilepsy; at other times it is caused by very painful ideas occasioned by external circumstances, as of grief or disappointment; but the most frequent cause of insanity arises from the pain of some imaginary or mistaken idea; which may be termed hallucinatio maniacalis. 1
His Discourse was nothing but only questions, and they were generally but two. 1. What was usual with him in the time of his Health and Strength of Reason and Understanding, which was always, What news, or what news at London? 2. A question about somthing which was present with him, and which by reason of the trouble thereof, could scarcely go out of his mind, which was, what he should do about the weakness in his knees? For he was so weak that he could scarcely go; not well sit down on his Chair without some assistance, nor rise off it again without help.
