Class III. i. 2. 19. OF VOLITION. 32? 



let is faid fometimes to be given to a foldier, who is to be ie- 

 verely flogged, that he may by biting it better bear his punim- 

 ment. 



19. Citta. A defire to fwallovv indigeftible Jubilances. I 

 once faw a young lady, about ten years of age, who filled her 

 ftomach with the earth out of a flower-pot, and vomited it up 

 with fmall (tones, bits of wood, and wings of infects amongft it* 

 She had the bombycinous complexion, and looked like a ehloro- 

 tic patient, though fo young ; this generally proceeds from an 

 acid in the ftomach. 



M. M. A vomit* Magnefia alba. Armenian bole. Rhu- 

 barb. Bark. Steel. A blifter. See Clafs I. 2. 4. 5. 



20. Cacofitia. Averfion to food. This may arife, without 

 difeafe of the ftomach, from connecting naufeous ideas to our 



ufual food, as by calling a ham a hog's a . This madnefs 



is much inculcated by the ftoic philofophy. See Antoninus 5 

 Meditations. See two cafes of patients who refufed to take 

 nourifhment, Clafs III. 1. 2. 1. 



Averiions to peculiar kinds of food are thus formed early in 

 life by aflbciation of fome maniacal hallucination with them, I 

 remember a child, who on tailing the griitle of flurgeon, 2 Iked 

 what griftle was ? And being told it was like the divifion of 

 a man's nofe, received an ideal hallucination •, and for twenty 

 years afterwards could not be perfuaded to tafte fturgeon. 



The great fear or averfion, which fome people experience at 

 the fight of fpiders, toads, crickets, and the like, have generally 

 had a fimilar origin. 



M. M. Aflbciate agreeable ideas with thofe which difguft ; 

 as call a fpider ingenious, a frog clean and innocent ; and reprefs 

 all exprefTions of difguft by the countenance, as fuch exprefllons 

 contribute to preferve, or even to increafe the energy of the ideas 

 aflbciated with them ; as mentioned above in Species 17. Ira. 



21. Syphilis imagumria. The fear that they are infected with 

 the venereal difeafe, when they have only deferved it, is a very 

 common infanity amongil modeft young men *, and is not to be 

 cured without applying artfully to the mind -, a little mercury 

 muft be given, and hopes of a cure added weekly and gradually 

 by interview or correfpondence for fix or eight weeks. Many 

 of thefe patients have been repeatedly falivated without curing 

 the mind ! 



22. Pfora imagitiaria. 1 have twice feen an imaginary itch* 

 and twice an imaginary diabetes, where there was not the leaft 

 veftige of either of thofe difeafes, and once an imaginary deaf- 

 nefs, where the patient heard perfectly well. In all thefe cafes the 

 hallucinated idea is fo powerfully excited, that it is not to be 



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