The Lancet has received what may be presumed to be
an accurate account of the Pope's health. A few days ago, after he bad complained for some time of weakness, his Holiness was seized with pain in the right leg, sharp enough to make him cry out. The pain lasted, and was followed by one of the epileptic fits to which the Pope is subject, and by protracted sleeplessness. His physicians advised restoratives and a free use of claret, and after sixty hours passed in bed the Pope rose and transacted business. " The sleeplessness and languor have not, however, been overcome," and the closest attention is paid to any symptom which might indicate a failure of vitality, and be followed by collapse. The Pope, in fact, it is evident, in spite of official statements about a slight cold, is exceedingly ill.
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