A brief memoir of the late Thomas Bateman ... who died 9th April 1821.

Date:
1822
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Credit: A brief memoir of the late Thomas Bateman ... who died 9th April 1821. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Beverley, in Yorkshire 3 where he was obliged to remain during the following winter 3 and finding, at length, that his health required the sacrifice, he finally determined not to attempt returning to Lon¬ don. He had for some time been subject to attacks of the most alarming nervous languor, during which he was thought by all around him, as well as by himself, to be dying; and these now returned upon him continually, especially after using the least bodily exertion. During the winter he was con¬ siderably better 3 but on the return of warm weather, early in the spring of 1820, he had a severe attack of languor after a short ride. His dread of these attacks was so great, and they were brought on so frequently by the smallest fatigue, that he gradually relinquished all exertion, as he even believed that the exhaustion which would be pro¬ duced by the effort of walking across a room, might prove fatal. It was on Sunday the 9th of April that he first spoke to me on the subject of religion. He had passed the whole of the day in a state of extraor¬ dinary suffering, from languor, and a variety of nervous feelings, which he always said it was im¬ possible to describe, farther than that they were