34t DISEASES Class III. 2. 2. 1. 



ORDO II. 



Decreofed Volition. 



GENUS II. 



With decreofed Actions of the Organs of Senfe. 



SPECIES. 



I. Recolleciionis jaclura. Lofs of recollection. This is the 

 defect of memory in old people, who forget the actions of yef- 

 terday, being incapable of voluntary recollection, and yet re- 

 member thofe of their youth, which by frequent repetition are 

 introduced by afTbciation or fuggeftion. This is properly the 

 paralyfis of the mind •, the organs of fenfe do not obey the vol- 

 untary power 5 that is, our ideas cannot be recollected, or acted 

 over again by the will. 



After an apoplectic attack the patients, on beginning-to re- 

 cover, find themielves molt at a lofs in recollecting proper names 

 of perfons or places ; as thoie words have not been fo frequent- 

 ly afTociated with the ideas they (land for, as the common words 



of a language. Mr. , a man of fcrong mind, of a fhort- 



necked family, many of whom had iuffered by apoplexy, after 

 an apoplectic fit, on his recovering the ufe of fpeech, after re- 

 peated trials to remember the name of a perfon or place, applaud- 

 ed himfelf, when he fucceeded, with fuch a childilh fmile on the 

 partial return of his fagacicy, as very much affected me. — Not 

 long, alas ! to return ; for another attack in a few weeks de- 

 itroyed the whole. See Clals IV. 2. 3.8. 



I faw a child after the fmah-pox, which was left in this fitua- 

 tion *, it was lively, ftive, and even vigorous ; but (hewed that 

 kind of furprife, which ~Uy excites, at every object it view- 

 ed ; and that as often as it viewed it. I never heard the termin- 

 ation of the cafe. 



2. Stultitia voluntaria. Voluntary folly. The abfence of 

 voluntary power and confequent incapacity to compare the ideas 

 of prefent and future good. Brute animals may be faid to be 

 in this fituation, as they are in general excited into action only 

 by their prefent painful or pleafurable fenfations. Hence though 

 they are liable to furprife, when their paiTmg trains of ideas are 

 diffevered by violent ftimuli ; yet are they not affected with 

 wonder or altonifhment at the novelty of objects ; as they pof- 

 fefa but in a very inferior degree, that voluntary power of com- 

 paring 



