V - A Medical Prescription

Summary

“Constantinus Bariniero, a violenti ira fortique animi perturbatione quandoque paulo ante coenam commotus, indebilitate protinus contractili, sensitivique fibri potentia nonnihil exhausta, concidit. Hinc lipothymia, artuum tremores infirmitatesque, anorexia et tristitia secutae sunt. Ad medicinam confugienti difusiva stimulantia primum, utpote cardiaca operatica, pluribus vicibus pro ratione sumenda; dein amara (kina kina presertim) martialiaque, utpote permanentiora, roborantia, ministrata sunt. Dieta analeptica praescripta. His non ad integrum indicationi respondentibus, frigida balnea instituta sunt, ad animationis revocandos exhaustos spiritus, ut activiora remedia inde fierent.

“His peractis, infirmum corpus, non mediocriter roboratum, se ad solita munera vitae expedit. Hyeme vero facta, permanentis frigoris probabiliter, vi denuo directe debilitata, excitabuntur fibra corporis, ideoque laxabuntur; et gravitati suae nonnihil obediens videtur.”

Translation of Latin Letter.

Gonstantine Bariniero gave way one day, shortly before a meal, to a violent outburst of anger, which occasioned much disturbance in a mind already overstrained; and he thereupon fell down in a state of muscular collapse, accompanied by no little exhaustion of the nervous system. This was followed by a fainting-fit, tremblings and feebleness of the limbs, vomiting, and melancholy.