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fvrlmming. He then for half an hour liuntecl a pack of hounds 5 

 as appeared by his hallooing, and calling the dogs by their names, 

 and difcourfing with the attendants of tJie chafe, defcribing ex- 

 actly a day of hunting, which ([ was informed) he had witnefied 

 a year before, going through all the molt minute circumftances 

 of it ; calling to people, who were then prefent, and lamenting 

 the abfence of others, who were then alio abfent. After this 

 jcene he imitated, as he lay in bed, fome of the plays of boys, 

 as fwimming and jumping. He then lung an Engliih and then 

 an Italian long ; part of which with his eyes open, and part with 

 them clofed, but could not be awakened or excited by any vio- 

 lence, which it was proper to ufe. 



After about an hour he came fuddenly to hirofelf with ap- 

 parent furprife, and feemed quite ignorant of any part of what 

 had patted, and after being apparently well for half an hour, he 

 fuddenly fell into a great ftupor, with flower pulfe than natural, 

 and a How moaning refpiration, in which he continued about 

 another half hour, and then recovered. 



The fequel of this difeafe was favourable ; he was directed 

 one grain of opium at fix every morning, and then to rife out of 

 bed ; at half paft fix he was directed fifteen drops of laudanum 

 in a glafs of wine and water. The firft day the paroxyfm be- 

 came ihoner, and lefs violent. The dole of opium was increas- 

 ed to one-half more, and in three or four days the fits left him. 

 The bark and filings of iron were alfo exhibited twice a day 5 

 and I believe the complaint returned no more. 



2. In this paroxyfm it muft be obferved, that he began with 

 pain, and ended with ftupor, in both circumftances refemblin-y 

 a fit of epiiepfy. And that therefore the exertions both of mind 

 and body, both the voluntary ones, and thofe immediately excited 

 \>y pleafurable fenfation, were exertions to relieve pain. 



The hunting fcene appeared to be rather an ad: of memory 

 than of imagination, and was therefore rather a voluntary exertion, 

 though attended with the pleafurable eagernefs, which was the 

 confequence of thefe ideas recalled by recollection, and not the 

 caufe of them. 



Thefe ideas thus voluntarily recollected were fucceeded by fen- 

 fations of pleafure, though his fenfes were unaffected by the 

 itimuli of vifible or audible objects ; or fo weakly excited by 

 them as not to produce fenfation or attention. And the pleaf- 

 ure thus excited by volition produced other ideas and other mo- 

 tions in confequence of the fen forial power of fenfation. 

 Whence the mixed catenations of voluntary and fenfitive ideas 

 and mufcular motions in reverie ; which, like every other kind 



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