"The sudden Gusts of these Passions being thus accounted for, when they become extreme they drive about the Blood with such a Hurricane, that Nature is overset, like a Mill by a Flood: So that what drove it only quicker round before, now intirely stops it, and renders the Countenance pale and ghastly."
An Essay of Health and Long Life
Cheyne, George. <u>An Essay of Health and Long Life</u> (London: George Strahan, 1724). &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=5wIAAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;