occurring at Camp-Meetings. Ill 



termed head pleurisy, and thus, also, the agitations of 

 religious exercise are called St. Vitus's dance. The 

 misapplication of terms in medicine was a fruitful 

 source of error in the dark ages of the world, and it was 

 hoped that physicians had absolved themselves from the 

 tyranny of custom ; but Dr. R. has either misnamed 

 this affection, or mistaken the influence of a convulsive 

 operation of the moral faculty upon the system for an 

 idiopathic bodily disease. 



The influence of physical causes upon the intellectual 

 faculties, and especially upon the moral faculty, is too 

 well known to admit of a single doubt, and the imme- 

 diate operation of the feelings and passions of the mind 

 upon the moral faculty have given rise to all those ges- 

 ticulations of body, which have astonished a dispassion- 

 ate public, and which Mr. Wilkinson has judiciously 

 described. 



From Mr. Wilkinson's history it is evident, that 

 feeling had a large share in producing the exercise ; and 

 the fact of its not having occurred among the Seceders, 

 who are numerous in the same district, is a strong evi- 

 dence in support of this position. The latter confine 

 themselves to the use of the old Psalms, which are seri- 

 ous and doctrinal, and also to the old tunes, which are 

 slow and plaintive; while the others use hymns of the 

 most em passioned kind, and accompanied with melan- 

 choly music, of a quick movement. 



" The effects of music upon the moral faculty," sa\ - 

 Dr. Rush, " have been felt and recorded in every conn- 



