He saw her on
October 6, 1847, when she told him she had a strong presentiment
of death on October 28th. She stated that she had been born on
that day, her first husband had died on October 28th, and she had
married her second husband on that day. On October 27th her pulse
began to fail, she fell into a state of extreme prostration, and
at noon on the 28th she died. In substantiation of the
possibility of the influence of presentiment Montgomery cites
another case in which he was called at an early hour to visit a
lady, the mother of several children. He found her apparently
much agitated and distressed, and in great nervous excitement
over a dream she had had, in which she saw a handsome monument
erected by some children to their mother. She had awakened and
became dreadfully apprehensive, she could not tell as to what.
The uneasiness and depression continued, her pulse continued to
grow weak, and she died at twelve that night without a struggle.
Andrews has made several observations on this subject, and
concludes that presentiment of death is a dangerous symptom, and
one which should never be overlooked. One of his cases was in a
man with a fractured leg in the Mercy Hospital at Pittsburg.
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