Among the many anecdotes related of persons whose lives have been
preserved by music, is the following.
“A woman, being attacked for several months with the vapours, and
confined to her apartment, had resolved to starve herself to death.
She was, however, prevailed on, but not without difficulty, to see a
representation of the _Servo Padrona_ (a musical piece so called.) At
the conclusion of which she found herself almost cured; and, renouncing
her melancholy resolution, was entirely restored to health by a few
more representations of the same kind.”