310 DISEASES CLASS III. 1. 2. 2. 



common convulsion, in the patient's possessing at the same time 

 a sensibility of the stimuli of external objects. 



Some have been reported to have been involved in reverie so 

 perfectly, as not to have been disturbed by the discharge of a 

 cannon; and others to have been insensible to torture, as the 

 martyrs for religious opinions; but these seem more properly 

 to belong to particular insanities than to reverie, like nostalgia 

 and erotomania. 



Reverie is distinguished from madness as described above; 

 and from delirium, because the trains of ideas are kept consist- 

 ent by the power of volition, as the person reasons and delibe- 

 rates in it. Somnambulismus is a part of reverie, somnambu- 

 lism consisting in the exertions of the locomotive muscles, and 

 reverie in the exertions of the organs of sense; See Class I. 1. 

 1. 9. and Sect. XIX. both which are mixed, or alternate with 

 each other for the purpose of relieving pain. 



When the patients in reverie exert their volition on their or- 

 gans of sense, they can occasionally perceive the stimuli of ex- 

 ternal objects, as explained in Sect. XIX. And in this case it 

 resembles sometimes an hallucination of the senses, as there is a 

 mixture of fact and imagination in their discourse; but may be- 

 thus distinguished: hallucinations of the senses are allied to de- 

 lirium, and are attended generally with quick pulse, and other 

 symptoms of great debility: but reverie is without fever, and 

 generally alternates with convulsions; and so much intuitive 

 analogy (see Sect. XVII. 3. 7.) is retained in its paroxysms, as to 

 preserve a consistency in the trains of ideas. 



Miss G , whose case is related in Sect. III. 5. 8. said as 



I once sat by her, " My head is fallen off, see it is rolled to that 

 corner of the room, and the little black dog is nibbling the nose 

 off." On my walking to the place which she looked at, and 

 returning, and assuring her that her nose was unhurt, she be : 

 came pacified, though I was doubtful whether she attended to 

 me. See Class III. 1. 1. 9. and Class III. 1. 2. 2. 



M. M. Large doses of opium given before the expected pa- 

 roxysm, as in epilepsia dolorifica, Class III. 1. 1. 8. 



The hallucinatio studiosa, or false ideas in reverie, differ 

 from maniacal hallucinations above described, as no insane ex- 

 ertions succeed, and in the patients whom I have seen they 

 have always been totally forgotten, when the paroxysm was 

 over. 



Master , a school-boy about twelve years old, after he 



came out of a convulsion fit and sat up in bed, said to me, 

 " Dont you see my father standing at the feet of the bed, he is 

 come a long way on foot to see me." I answered, no: " What 



