The Hunterian oration, delivered before the Royal College of Surgeons in London / [Honoratus Leigh Thomas].
- Thomas, Honoratus Leigh.
- Date:
- 1827
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The Hunterian oration, delivered before the Royal College of Surgeons in London / [Honoratus Leigh Thomas]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![/ [ 20 ] cases will admit, occurring at the same time; and which were repeatedly and most carefully investigated. As friends they were almost in the daily habits of com- municating with each other, and their similar distressing sensations, were, as may be imagined, the frequent topic of conversation. They were both men of lively imagina- tion and quick parts; their habits of life had been so far similar, that the mind had been actively employed in both, though in very different situations. They were each subject to an entire loss of memory; which occasionally occurred in the midst of the most ani- mated conversation, as well, as when the mind was in a state of quietude. This suspension of intellect was merely transient; and it’s restoration was equally sudden. The sense of smelling was also very obtuse ; commonly the strongest volatiles would scarcely affect the organ, yet whenever any circumstance occurred to excite painful emotions in the mind, they were liable to be assailed with, and suffered the most poignant distress from, the sensible impression of odours, which they invariably de- scribed as horribly offensive. Indeed the pallid face and hurried state of the whole system, very clearly denoted the intensity of their sufferings. They were subject to frequent and violent fits of sneezing, and Mr. Cruikshank often remarked that the organ of smell must have nume- rous unknown nerves in it’s composition, to explain the complexity of his feelings. A very short time only intervened between the decease of these relatives; similar in their death, as in the precur- sory symptoms. Mr. C. was the survivor; and investi-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22005286_0026.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
