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called into action by his going to college; although his anxious solicitude for the preservation of his healthy and his minute attention to his own feelings, rendered the experiment somewhat hazardous. It succeeded, however, completely, and in the month of August, 1830, 1 was informed that he was considered free from complaint, and that, although he did not derive much benefit from the seton at the time, his recovery was mainly attributed to it: and I will not deny that it may have done good, as w^as proved, beyond all doubt, in the case of Hood, above detailed, who repeatedly assured me that, although the setons were almost more than he could bear, he believed they did him more good than any other remedy. I merely mention this to record the effects of setons, although there was no comparison in the symptoms of the two cases.

I have only a few words to add upon a case of severe Palpitation, occurring in a clergyman, of literary and sedentary habits, in this town, who was so alarmed, either from his own apprehensions, or the prognosis of his medical advisers, that he absolutely was almost afraid of moving from place to place alone. After having gone through a long train of medical discipline, he appeared little or no better. Almost one of the last remedies tried was a seton. Being, however, at last diverted from his sedentary habits, by his election to a popular pulpit, his nervous palpitation left him. I do not know that I should have been warranted in alluding to this gentleman's case, had I not been hastily requested to see him, upon his being suddenly seized with syncope, which alarmed himself and friends so much, that they ap-