326 DISEASES Class III. i. a. 18, 



tcndant on other infanities, and as, whenever it appears, it dif- 

 tinguifhes infanity from delirium, it is generally a good fign in 

 fevers with debility. 



An injury voluntarily inflicted on us by others excites our ex- 

 ertions of felf-defence or of revenge againft the perpetrator of 

 it ; but anger does not fucceed in any great degree unlefs our 

 pride is offended ; this idea is the maniacal hallucination, tha 

 pain of which fometimes produces fuch violent and general ex- 

 ertions of our mufcles and ideas, as to difappoint the revenge 

 we meditate, and vainly to exhauft our fenforial power. Hence 

 angry people, if not further excited by difagreeable language, 

 are liable in an hour or two to become humble, and forry for their 

 violence, and willing to make greater conceflions than required. 



M. M. Be (ilent when you feel yourfelf angry. Never ufe 

 loud oaths, violent upbraidings, or ftrong expreffions of counte- 

 nance, or gesticulations of the arms, or clenched fids ; as thefe 

 by their former affociations with anger will contribute to in- 

 crease it. I have been told of a fergeant or corporal, who be- 

 gan moderately to cane his foldiers, when they were awkward 

 in their exercife, but being addicted to fwearing and coarfe lan- 

 guage, he ufed foon to enrage himfelf by his own expreffions of 

 anger, till toward the end he was liable to beat the delinquents 

 unmercifully. 



1 8. Rabies. Rage. A defire of biting others, moft frequent- 

 ly attendant on canine madnefs. Animals in great pain, as in 

 the colica faturnina, are faid to bite the ground they lie upon, 

 and even their own flefh. I have feen patients bite the attend- 

 ants, and even their own arms, in the epilepsia dolorifica. It 

 feems to be an exertion to relieve pain, as explained in Sect. 

 XXXIV. 1.3. The dread of water in hydrophobia is occasion- 

 ed by the repeated painful attempts to fw„allow it, and is there- 

 fore not an effential or original part of the difeafe called canine 

 madnefs. See Clafs III. 1. 1. 15. 



There is a mania reported to exift in fome parts of the eafl, 

 in which a man is faid to run a muck ; and thefe furious mani- 

 acs are believed to have induced their calamity by unlucky gam- 

 ing, and afterwards by taking large quantities of opium 5 whence 

 the pain of defpair is joined with the energy of drunkennefs \ 

 they are then faid to fally forth into the moft populous ftreets, 

 and to wound and flay all they meet, till they receive their own 

 death, which they defire to procure without the greater guilt, 

 ss they fuppofe of fuicide. 



M. M. When there appears a tendency to bite in the pain- 

 ful epilepfy, the end of a rolled up towel, or a wedge of foft 

 wood, fhould be put into the mouth of the patient. As a buU 



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