The morbid anatomy of the brain, in mania and hydrophobia : with the pathology of these two diseases, as collected from the papers of the late Andrew Marshal ... : with an account of some experiments, to ascertain whether the pericardium and ventricles of the brain contain water in a state of health / to which is prefixed a sketch of his life by S. Sawrey.

Date:: 1815

Credit: The morbid anatomy of the brain, in mania and hydrophobia : with the pathology of these two diseases, as collected from the papers of the late Andrew Marshal ... : with an account of some experiments, to ascertain whether the pericardium and ventricles of the brain contain water in a state of health / to which is prefixed a sketch of his life by S. Sawrey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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$of comfort; to which he answered,— My dear Sir, you distress me. . \ Yet he considered it his strict duty to support the small remains of life, which was now be- come so embittered, by every means in his power. Opium had been tried in a variety of forms, but it had never agreed with him ; it af- fected his head, and produced fever. One day he asked the Editor, whether an opiate enema midit be a^ain used? to which it was an- swered, that from previous experience he might expect temporary relief, but at the ex- pence of hurting his general health, and thereby of shortening life. His answer was understood to be, that he wished for ease, even at that price ; but the Editor was mistaken, for, on observing to him that, though he was not afraid of death, and even courted it, yet it was his medical attendant's duty to ])rolong, not to shorten, life, r—he fully assented to this, and added, but we dare, dare not, interfere with that life which God has given us. Dr. Marshal's religious sentiments were phi- losophical, but sincere. He meditated on the Deity with reverential awe; and to point out the wisdom that has been exerted in the creation of the human frame, was one of his favourite topics. d$

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