An history of the late important period : from the beginning of His Majesty's illness, to the settlement of the executive government, in the appointment of a regent. To which are added, observations on the conduct of the two contending parties to the period of His Majesty's re-appearance in the House of Lords / [by Louis Dutens].

  • Louis Dutens
Date:
1789
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Credit: An history of the late important period : from the beginning of His Majesty's illness, to the settlement of the executive government, in the appointment of a regent. To which are added, observations on the conduct of the two contending parties to the period of His Majesty's re-appearance in the House of Lords / [by Louis Dutens]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 23 ] Are there any aftual fymptoms at prefenr, which lead Sir Lucas Pepys to entertain more favorable hope* of his Majtfty’s recovery, than he has hitherto had during his attendance? 1 think there are very material fymptoms, as his Majcfty’s ge- neral hate of health is certainly much better than it was. Is the amendment that has taken place, only in his Majefty’s ge- neral date of health, or is there any abatement of his particular dif- order ? From his Majefty’s general hate of health being better, his fleep more quiet, his appetite is better, and he is more in his ufual ftate ; all which circumftances mull previotifly occur before recovery; but thefe are only leading fteps towards recovery—the diforder ftill re- mains ; it is difficult to fay whether it is actually abated. What does Sir Lucas Pepys mean by his Majefty being more in his ufual ftate ? More quiet, and in a lefs perturbed ftate. Whether is it Sir Lucas Pepys’s opinion that there is, or is not, at prefent any abatement of his Majefty’s diforder ? I have anfvvered it, by faying it is difficult to fay whether there is any a£tual abatement, and I wilh to explain my meaning in thefe words—The only way of explaining it is by analogy to fome other complaint. In the cafe of a mortification, where the bark would tnoft probably effeft a cure, I could not fay, during feveral hours after its being taken, whether there was, or was tiot, any abatement of the mortification : fo, in the cafe of his Majefty, I cannot fay, whe- ther the return of general health has, or has not, yet produced any aftual abatement of the particular diforder ; but fuch a return of general good health would lead me to be of opinion that an evident abatement might beexpefted. lean, however, fay, that no a&ual evident abatement has yet taken place. When Sir Lucas Pepys, in his anfvver to the fecond queftion, ftate* that the majority of perfons labouring under the fame diforder with his Majefty do recover, does he mean to include all the different fpe- cies of the diforder, or to confine himfelf to that particular fpecies with which his Majefty is affe&ed ? I mean in that tftimate to fpeak of the diforder generally, and not fpecially. Can you affign any known caufe to which, in your judgment, his Majefty’s prefent diforder is referable? I know no evident, or affignable caufe. Is