Literary Reminiscences From the Autobiography of An English Opium Eater volume
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) All at once, on a day at the latter end of August, in one instant of time, I was seized with some nervous sensation that, for a moment, caused sick- ness. A glass of brandy removed the sickness; but I felt, to my horror, a sting as it were, of some stationary torment left behind — a torment absolutely indescribable, but under which I felt assured that life could not be borne. It is useless and impossible to describe what followed : 218 LITERARY REMINISCENCES. with no apparent illness discover...able to any medical eye — looking, indeed, better than usual for three months and upwards, I was under the possession of some internal nervous malady, that made each respiration which I drew an act of separate anguish. I travelled southwards imme- diately to Liverpool, to Birmingham, to Bristol, to Bath, for medical advice; and finally rested — in a gloomy- state of despair, rather because I saw no use in-further change, than that I looked for any change in this place more than others — at Clifton, near Bristol.
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