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ceed ; and the trains of ideas become more and more inconfift- 

 ent from this defect of voluntary exertion, as explained in the 

 fections on ileep and reverie, whilft thofe paflions which are un- 

 fixed with volition are more vividly felt, and {hewn with lefs 

 referve ; hence pining love, or fuperftitious fear, and the maud- 

 ling tear dropped on the remembrance of the moll trifling 

 diitrefs. 



5. At length all thefe circumftances are increafed ; the quan- 

 tity of pleafure introduced into the fyftem by the increafed irrita- 

 tive mufcular motions of the whole fanguiferous, and glandular, 

 and abforbent fyftems, becomes fo great, that the organs of fenfe 

 are more forcibly excited into action by this internal pleafurable 

 fenfation, than by the irritation from the ftimulus of external 

 objects. Hence the drunkard ceafes to attend to external ftimu- 

 li, and as volition is now alfo fufpended, the trains of his ideas 

 become totally inconfiftent as in dreams, or delirium : and at 

 length a ftupor fucceeds from the great exhauftion of fenforial 

 power, which probably does not even admit of dreams, and in 

 which, as in apoplexy, no motions continue but thofe from in- 

 ternal (timuli, from fenfation, and from aflbciation. 



6. In other people a paroxyfm of drunkennefs has another ter- 

 mination ; the inebriate, as foon as he begins to be vertiginous, 

 makes pale urine in great quantities and very frequently, and at , 

 length becomes lick, vomits repeatedly, or purges, or has pro- 

 fufe fweats, and a tempoiary fever enfues with a quick ftrong 

 pulfe. This in fome hours is fucceeded by fleep ; but the un- 

 fortunate bacchanalian does not perfectly recover himfelf till 

 about the fame time of the fucceeding day, when his courfe of 

 inebriation bcjan. As fhewn in Sect. XVII. 1. 7. on Catena-! 

 tion. The temporary fever with ftrcng pulfe is owing to the; 

 fame caufe as the glow on the ikin mentioned in the third para-j 

 graph of this Section : the flow of urine and ficknefs arife from 

 the whole fyftem of irritative motions being thrown into confu- 

 fion by their aflbciations with each other ; as in fea-ficknefs, 

 mentioned in Sect. XX. 4. on Vertigo ; and which is more fully 

 explained in Section XXIX. on Diabetes. 



7. In this vertigo from internal caufes we fee objects double, 

 as two candles inltead of one, which is thus explained. Two 

 iines drawn through the axes of our two eyes meet at the object 

 we attend to : this angle of the optic axes increafes or diminifhes 

 with the lefs or greater distances of objects. All objects before 

 or behind the place where this angle is formed, appear double ; 

 as any one may obferve by holding up a pen between his eyes 

 and the candle ; when he looks attentively at a fpot on the pen, 

 and carclefsly at the candle, it will appear double ; and the re- 



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