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groans so, I am sure there is somebody dying in the room," and 

 then sunk again into a kind of sleep. From these two cases there 

 appeared to be no pain in the act of dying, which may afford con- 

 solation to all, but particularly to those who are afflicted with the 

 fear of death. v 



15. Orcitimor. The fear of Hell. Many theatric preachers 

 among the Methodists successfully inspire this terror, and live 

 comfortably upon the folly of their hearers. In this kind of mad- 

 ness the poor patients frequently commit suicide; aUhough they 

 believe they run headlong into the Hell, which they dread! Such 

 is the power of oratory, and such the debility of the human un- 

 derstanding! 



Those who suffer under this insanity, are generally the most 

 innocent and harmless people; who are then liable to accuse 

 themselves of the greatest imaginary crimes, and have so much 

 intellectual cowardice, that they dare not reason about those 

 things, which they are directed by their priest to believe, how- 

 ever contradictory to human apprehension, or derogatory to the 

 great Creator of all .things. The maniacal hallucination at 

 length becomes so painful, that the poor insane flies from life to 

 become free from it. 



M. M. Where the intellectual cowardice is great, the voice 

 of reason is ineffectual: but that of ridicule may save many 

 from those mad-making doctors; though it is too weak to cure 

 those who are already hallucinated. Foote's Farces are recom- 

 mended for this purpose. 



16. Satyriasis. An ungovernable desire of venereal indul- 

 gence. The remote cause is probably the stimulus of the se- 

 men; whence the phallus becomes distended with blood by the 

 arterial propulsion of it being more strongly excited than the cor- 

 respondent venous absorption, At the same time a new sense is 

 produced in the other termination of the urethra; which, like 

 itching, requires some exterior friction to facilitate the removal 

 of the cause of the maniacal actions, which may probably be in- 

 creased in those cases by some associated hallucinations of ideas. 

 It differs from priapismus chronicus in the desire of its appro- 

 priated object, which is not experienced in the latter, Class I. 

 1. 4. 6. and from the priapismus amatorius, Class II. 1.7. 9. in 

 the maniacal actions in consequence of desire. The furor uteri- 

 nus, or nymphomania, is a similar disease. 



M. M. Venesection. Cathartics. Torpentia. Marriage. 



17. Ira. Anger is caused by offended pride. We are not 

 angry at breaking a bone, but become quite insane from the 

 smallest stroke of a whip from an inferior. Ira furor brevis. An- 

 ger is not only itself a temporary madness, but is a frequent at- 



