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YET THERE ' S METHOD IN IT." 293
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Again , how often suicide is dependent on the unhealthy state of in the his brain Ci Medical , is shown Inquiries by the way and in Observations which it run upon s in families the Diseases . Rush of ,
the Mind , " ( Philadelphia , 1812 , ) mentions two twin brothers who had served in the American war of Independence . They were so
alike as to be almost undistinguishable the one from the other * and it so happened that they obtained the same grade—that of
captain . They were both happily married , were men of independent means , and lived about two miles apart . Nevertheless ,
Captain J . L , returning from the Legislature of "Vermont , blew out his brains with a pistolhaving been depressed in his mind
, for some days previously . About the same period , Captain C . L became melancholyand talked of suicide . Some days later
, he got up -very early , proposed to his wife that they should ride together on horsebackshaved himself , and then -went into another
, room and cut his throat . The mother of these two men was insane ; and two of their sisters were for many years tormented with the
fear that they also might commit suicide . A landholder , M . G , left behind him seven sons , and
£ 80 , 000 . None of the sons had any money troubles ; some of them increased their share of the fortune by their own industry ; all of
them had good health , and were men of good repute ; yet , between thirty and forty years after their father ' s death , every one of these
seven brothers had committed suicide . In another family five members shared the same fate—the grandmother , mother , sister ,
son , and daughter . M . Trelat cites a story well known to the medical world , having
been told by Hufeland in his Journal de Medecine Pratique , in 1819 , but probably quite new to our readers . It exemplifies in every
line that the unfortunate suicide was perfectly lucid up to the last moment . A merchant , aged thirty-two , having lost his fortune ,
determined to die of hunger . Pie had been ill for some weeks , having continual pain in the abdomen in consequence of a fall .
From the 12 th to the 15 th of September , 1818 , he wandered about the countryand stopped in a lonely wood . On the 15 th he dug a
, hole , which he fixed on as his death-bed , and remained there until the 3 rd of Octoberon which day he was found yet living by a
, tavern keeper . After eigiiteen days' abstinence from food he was yet breathing , but unconscious ; and he died just as the man had
with great difficulty made him swallow a cup of soup . _TU _^ oii him was and ended found on a journal the 29 , th written of Sep with tember a pencil four , days which before began he on was the found 16 th . .
, , It was horribly minute , descriptive of his bodily sufferings , yet also ' of an undeviating determination to lie there till he died .
The laws did not then bear upon such thefts , and the clerks in the commercial houses kept a quick look-out , and if they saw a ! lad while y ' s han in d the too near a
parties tempting the article ladies , would would laug cry h out at this , " Senora trial of , wits Senora . " evening ,
Yet There ' S Method In It." 293
YET THERE ' S METHOD IN IT . " 293
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1862, page 293, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071862/page/5/
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