37 6 DISEASES Class IV. i. 2. 8. 



In men the throat becomes fo thickened at the time of puber- 

 ty, that a meafure of this is ufed to afcertain the payment of a 

 poll-tax on males in fome of the iflands of the Mediterranean, 

 which commences at puberty ; a firing is wrapped twice round 

 the thinned part of the neck, the ends of it are then put into 

 each corner of the mouth •> and if, when thus held in the teeth, 

 it pafles readily over the head, the fubjedt, is taxable. 



It is difficult to point out by what circumdance the fenfitive 

 motions of the penis and of the throat and nofe become aflbci- 

 ated •, I can only obferve, that thefe parts are fubjedeu to great- 

 er pleafurable fenfations than any other parts of the bony j one 

 being defigned to preferve ourielves by the pleafure attending 

 the fmell and deglutition of food, and the other to enfure the 

 propagation of our fpecies : and may thus gain an aflbciation of 

 their fenfitive motions by their being eminently fenfible to pleaf- 

 ure. See Clafs I. 3. 1. 11. and III. 1. 1. 15. andSec~t. XVL 

 5. See Gonorrhoea venerea, II. 1. 5. 1. 



In the female fex this aflbciation betv/een the face, throat, 

 nofe, and pubis, does not exift ; whence no hair grows on their 

 chins at the time of puberty, nor do their voices change, or their 

 necks thicken. This happens probably from there being in them 

 a more exquifite fenifitve fympathy between the pubis and the 

 breads. Hence their breads fwell at the time of puberty, and 

 fecrete milk at the time of parturition. And in the parotitis, or 

 mumps, the breads of women fweli, when the tumor of the pa- 

 rotitis fubfides. See Clafs I. 1. 2. 1 ^. Whence it would ap- 

 pear, that their breads poiTefs an intermediate fympathy between 

 the pubis and the throat ; as they are the feat of a paflion, which 

 men do not poffefs, that of fuckling children. 



8. Tenefmus ealculofus. The fphincter of the rectum becomes 

 painful or inflamed from the aflbciation of its fenfitive motions 

 with thofe of the fphincter of the bladder, when the latter is 

 ftimulated into violent pain or inflammation by a done. 



9. Polypus narium ex afcarid'ibus ? The dimulation of afcari- 

 des in the rectum produces, by fenfitive fympathy, an itching of 

 the nofe, as explained in IV. 2. 2. 6\ and in three children I 

 hate feen a polypus in the nofe, who were all affected 

 with afcarides ; to the perpetual dimulation of which, and 

 the confequent fenfitive aflbciation, I was led to afcribe the 

 inflammation and thickening of the membrane of the nodrils. 



10. Crampus fur 'arum in cholera. A cramp of the mufcles of 

 the legs occurs in violent diarrhoea, or cholera, and from the 

 ufe of too much acid diet in gouty habits. This feems to fym- 

 pathize with uneafy fenfation in the bowels. See Clafs III. 1. 



1 4 This aflbciation Is not qafily accounted for, but is anal- 

 ogous 



