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and that the uneasy state of my head is merelysymptomatic, depending on the connexion be-tween the par vagrum, the symptomatic nerve, andthe great semilunar ganglion." I saw I had hitupon a wrong key. " My learning, my dearTom!" said I, " does not enable me to follow youinto the depths of physic which these terms im-ply."—" I know nothing of them either," repliedhe, " I only give you the doctor's words." He,however, with the greatest politeness changedthe matter of our discourse, which gradually be-came extremely animated; and taking me kindlyby the hand, as I rose to depart, he acknowledgedthat my visit had done him an essential service;that the pain in his eye, which he was apprehen-sive was an incipient cataract, had completelyleft him; and he earnestly begged that I would re-peat my visits every evening, whilst I remainedin town. My hand was upon the handle of theroom-door, and he had rung the bell for his ser-vant to attend me to the street-door, when Iturned round, recollecting that I had not inquiredafter his mother; and merely asked " how andwhere she was?" He started up and approached