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Galen has seen the same cause produce diseases of the brain and nerves, and destroy the vital force[8].

He says in another place, that a man who was not thoroughly recovered of a violent disorder, died on the same night that he acquitted himself of the nuptial function with his wife.[9]

Pliny the Naturalist tells us, that Cornelius Gallus, a Prætor advanced in years, and Titus Ætherius, died in the act itself of coition.[10]

“The stomach (says Ætius) is weakened; the transgressor falls into a paleness, leanness, dryness; his eyes are hollowed in his head[11].”

These attestations of the most authoritative among the antients, are confirmed by a crowd among the moderns.

Sanctorius, who has, with the greatest accuracy, examined all the causes that act upon the human body, has observed, that this one weakened the stomach, ruined the digestions, hindered the insensible perspiration, the interruptions or disorders of which are attended with such bad consequences, produced a heat in the liver and kidneys, disposed for the stone, diminished the natural heat, and commonly drew after it a weakness of the eyes[12].