An Account of the Singular Effects of Music on a Patient

with a -flow fever in 'March, 1759^ by which, in eight weeks, he was reduced to a very weak ftate. He was a ftranger to any intemperance; and although of a grave difpofition, there was no reafon whatever to fufpedt infanity. On the 29th of May a company of young perfons pafied by the houfe, carrying oaken boughs, .and playing upon a, fiddle: he no fooner heard the rnulic than he Harted up in bed, feemed tranfported with joy, and cried aloud, " Dance ! dance!" The young man had played upon the flute, but had never been accultomed to dance. x