Crossword-Solution: MUSC 4 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Paul was striking seven as Aramis, on horseback, dressed as a simple citizen, that is to say, in colored suit, with no distinctive mark about him, except a kind of hunting-knife by his side, passed before the Rue du Petit-Musc, and stopped opposite the Rue des Tournelles, at the gate of the Bastile.

Baisemeaux had hardly had time to return from the donjon, than D’Artagnan placed himself in ambuscade close to the Rue de Petit-Musc, so as to see every one who might leave the gates of the Bastile.

But as the nerves of very weak people lose their sensibility, in the same manner as their muscles lose their activity, by a small time of exertion, it frequently happens, that sick people in the extreme debility of fevers are perpetually employed in picking something from the bed-clothes, occasioned by their mistaking the appearance of these _muscæ volitantes_ in their eyes.

The common experience of seeing rats and mice running about during a fit of _delirium tremens_ very well illustrates the co-operation of peripheral impressions not usually attended to, and possibly magnified by the morbid state of sensibility of the time (in this case flying spots, _muscæ volitantes_), with emotional conditions.

The patient suffered from _muscæ volitantes_, and could not bear even a mild degree of light falling on the closed lids.