Excerpt from The Philadelphia Medical Museum, 1811, Vol. 1 Andrew. Ellicott, a child six years old, of a remarkably strong, robust constitution, and plethoric habit, endowed with an understanding much above his 'age, and accustomed to use much exercise, on the twelfth of December 1807, had fatigued himself much at play. In the evening he had an ague, which was soon succeeded by an ardent fever, violent pain in the head, restlessness and delirium these symptoms continued till towards morning. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.