Class III. i. 2. 15. OF VOLITION. 



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groans fo, I am fure there is fomebody dying in the room," and 

 then funk again into a kind of fleep. From thefe two cafes 

 there appeared to be no pain in the aft of dying, which may 

 afford confolation to all, but particularly to thofe who are airlift- 

 ed with the fear of death. 



15. Orcitimor. The fear of Hell. Many theatric preachers 

 among the Methodifts fuccefsfully mfpire this terror, and live 

 comfortably upon the folly of their hearers. In this kind of 

 madnefs the poor patients frequently commit fuicide ; although 

 they believe they run headlong into the Hell, which they dread ! 

 Such is the power of oratory, and fuch the debility of the hu- 

 man underflanding ! 



Thofe, who fuffer under this infanity, are generally the moll 

 innocent and harmlefs people ; who are then liable to accufe 

 themfelves of the greateft imaginary crimes, and have fo much 

 intellectual cowardice, that thev dare not reafon about thole 

 things, which they are directed by their priefts to believe, how- 

 ever contradictory to human apprehenfion, or derogatory to the 

 great Creator of all things. The maniacal hallucination at length 

 becomes fo painful, that the poor infane flies from life to be* 

 come free from it. 



M. M. Where the intellectual cowardice is great, the voice 

 of reafon is ineffectual ; but that of ridicule may fave many 

 from thofe mad-making doctors ; though it is too weak to cure 

 thofe, who are already hallucinated. Foote's Farces are recom- 

 mended for this purpofe. 



16. Satyriajis. An ungovernable defire of venereal indul- 

 gence. The remote caufe is probably the ftimulus of the fc- 

 men ; whence the phallus becomes diftended with blood by the 

 arterial propultion of it being more ftrongly excited than the 

 correfpondent venous abforption. At the fame time a new fenfe 

 is produced in the other termination of the urethra ; which, like 

 itching, requires fome exterior friction to facilitate the removal 

 of the caufe of the maniacal actions, which may probably be in- 

 creafed in thofe cafes by fome aflbciated hallucinations of ideas. 

 It differs from priapifmus chronicus in the deiire of its appro- 

 priated object, which is not experienced in the latter, Clafs I. 

 1. 4. 6. and from the priapifmus amatorius, Clafs II. 1. 7. 9. in 

 the maniacal actions in confequence of defire. The furor ute- 

 rinus, or nymphomania, is a fimilar difeafe. 



M. M. Venefeftion. Cathartics. Torpentia. Marriage. 

 17. Ira. Anger is caufed by offended pride. We are not 

 angry at breaking a bone, but become quite infane from the 

 fmaileft ftrokeof a whip from an inferior. Ira furor brevis. An-, 

 g<*r is not only itfelf a temporary madnds, but is a frequent at- 

 tendant 



