130 DISEASES Class f. 2. $. 10. 



In fome paralytic affections, and in cold fits of ague, the fen- 

 fation of touch has Wen much impaired, and yet that of heat hafc 

 remained. See Sect. XIV. 6. 



M. M. Friction alone, or with camphorated oil, warm bath. 

 Ether. Volatile alkali and water. Internally, fpice, fait. In- 

 citantia. Secern entia. 



1 o. Stupor. The ftupor, which occurs in fevers with debili- 

 ty, is generally efteemed a favourable fymptom ; which may arife 

 from the lefs expenditure of fenforial power already exifting in 

 the brain and nerves, as mentioned in fpecies 6 of thisgenudf. 

 But if we fuppofe, that there is a continued production of fen- 

 forial power, or an accumulation of it in the torpid parts of the 

 fyftem, which is not improbable, becaufe fuch a production of 

 it continues during ileep, to which ftupor is much allied, there 

 is ftill further reafdn for believing it to be a favourable fymptom 

 in inirritable fevers ; and that much injury it often done by 

 blifters and other powerful ftimuli to remove the ftupor. See 

 Sea. XII. 7. 8. and XXXIIE 1. 4. 



Dr. Blane, in his Croonian Lecture on mufcular motion, for 

 1788, among many other ingenious obfervations and deductions, 

 relates a curious experiment on falmon, and other fiih, and which 

 he repeated upon eels with fimilar event. 



" If a fifh, immediately upon being taken out of the water, is 

 Itunned by a violent blow on the head, or by having the head 

 crufhed, the irritability and fweetnefs of the mufcles will be pre- 

 ferved much longer, than if it had been allowed to die with the 

 organs of fenfe entire. This is fo well known to fifhermen, 

 that they put it in practice, in order to make them longer fufcep- 

 tible of the operation called crimping. A falmon is one of the 

 fifh lead tenacious of life, infomuch, that it will lofe all figns of 

 life in lefs than half an hour after it is taken out of the water, if 

 fuffered to die without any farther injury \ but if, immediately 

 after being caught, it receives a violent blow on the head, the 

 mufcles will (hew vifible irritability for more than twelve hours 

 afterwards. 



Dr. Blane afterwards well remarks, that, " in thofe diforders 

 in which the exercife of the fenfes is in a great meafure deftroy- 

 ed, or fufpended, as in the hydrocephalus, and apoplectic palfy, 

 it happens, not uncommonly, that the appetite and degefticn are 

 better than in health." 



ORDO 



