Here he continued for three years, when, compelled by failing health, he abandoned the position to retire to his paternal acres in Smithfield-to die, after a long and lingering illness, on July 19, 1855. His disease-partial paralysis of the lower extremities, with torturing neuralgia and finally softening of the brain, the result of lead poisoning, caused-as he believed, and as he informed the writer-by the use of water which had passed for a considerable distance through leaden pipes.
"The History of the Medical Department of Transylvania University"
Robert Peter
Cummerbridge had left after the first act-a severe attack of neuralgia in the right eye.
"The Way of Ambition"
Robert Hichens
I cannot bear the neuralgia.
"A Very Naughty Girl"
L. T. Meade