At the last meeting of the French Academy of Medicine, Dr. Brown-Sequard related a very remarkable instance of the power of sympathy, which came within his recent observation. A little girl was looking out of a window, in a house in the Batignolles, a few days before. The lower sash was raised, and the child had placed her arms on the sill. Suddenly the support on which the sash rested gave way, and the window fell with considerable force on the little girl's arms, inflicting a severe bruise. Her mother, who was in the room at the time, happened to look toward the window at the moment of the accident, and witnessed it. She fainted with fright, and remained insensible for a minute or two. When she recovered, she was conscious of a severe pain in both arms; and on examining the seat of it, she was amazed to find on each arm a bruise, corresponding in position to that left by the accident on the child's arms, though more extensive.
Deem it not safe to pass through the thicket of Lust; there crouches the tiger of Pain.
