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ered him in the condition stated by the aunt; he was raving
and tearing and kicking up his heels, and looked wild and
made strange gestures, They succeeded in getting him in
the house, and some time after midnight he became pacified
and fell into a sound sleep. The next morning he appeared
‘ag usual, The doctor does not pretend to say that it was an
attack of epilepsy, but saw nothing of intoxieation, and did
not suspect anything of the kind.

A parent is apt to be blind to the faults of his children, but
a disinterested person will find no difficulty in detecting
drunkenness in the scene deseribed, for his conduct was pre-
eisely such as a boy of his age who had been drinking too
freely would exhibit.

He certainly gave no indications of epilepsy, for an epi-
leptie falls suddenly to the ground, and is never found lean-
ing against a tree or any other object for support; nor is the
@pasm generally prolonged over thirty minutes, and in most
cases not exceeding ten or fifteen; and at the termination of
the convulsion the patient goes into a sound sleep, but it
seema the prisoner did not become quiet under seven or eight
hours.

The next occurrence related by Dr. Worrell took place in
Portamouth, O., in 1850. His son had been out with some
young men, who brought him home. The doctor did not see
him until the paroxysm passed off, and thinks the attack wag
much lighter than the one near Baltimore. The evidence dis-
closes nothing tending to show epilepsy.

The next attack took place in Kentucky in 1851, and is
referred to by Dr, Curran in his deposition. Dr. Worrell
and family were boarding at the time with the father of Dr.
Curran. Dr. Curran gives it as his opinion that the attack
was epilepsy, but fails to assign any reason for the opinion,
and you are left in the dark as to who Dr. Curran is; what
is the extent of his skill, and what experience, if any, he has
had in such eases. The opinion may have been to some ex-
tent the result of information derived from Dr. Worrell,
for Dr. Worrell states that he told Dr. Curran that his son
was subject to convulsions. We are further informed by Dr.

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