346 DISEASES CLASS III. 2. 2. 1. 



ORDO II. 



Decreased Volition. 



GENUS II. 



With decreased Jletions of the Organs of Sense. 

 SPECIES. 



1. Recolketionis jactura. Loss of recollection. This is the 

 defect of memory in old people, who forget the actions of yester- 

 day, being incapable of voluntary recollection, and yet remem- 

 ber those of their youth, which by frequent repetition are intro- 

 duced by association or suggestion. This is properly the paralysis 



*of the mind; the organs of sense do not obey the voluntary power; 

 that is, our ideas cannot be recollected, or acted over again by 

 the will. 



After an apoplectic attack the patients, on beginning to re- 

 cover, find themselves most at a loss in recollecting proper names 

 of persons or places; as those words have not been so frequently 

 associated with the ideas they stand for, as the common words 

 of a language. Mr. , a man of strong mind, of a short- 

 necked family, many of whom had suffered by apoplexy, after 

 an apoplectic fit, on his recovering the use of speech, after re- 

 peated trials to remember the name of a person or place, ap- 

 plauded himself, when he succeeded, with such a childish smile 

 on the partial return of his sagacity, as very much affected me. 

 Not long, alas! to return; for another attack in a few weeks de- 

 stroyed the whole. See Class IV. 2. 3. 8. 



I saw a child after the small-pox, which was left in this situa- 

 tion; it was lively, active, and even vigorous; but shewed that 

 kind of surprise, which novelty excites, at every object it viewed; 

 and that as often as it viewed it. I never heard the termination 

 of the case. 



2. Stultitia voluntaria. Voluntary folly. The absence of 

 voluntary power and consequent incapacity to compare the ideas 

 of present and future good. Brute animals may be said to be 

 in this situation, as they are in general excited into action only 

 by their present painful or pleasurable sensations. Hence though 

 they are liable to surprise, when their passing trains of ideas are 

 dissevered by violent stimuli; yet are they not affected with 

 wonder or astonishment at the novelty of objects, as they pos- 

 sess but in a very inferior degree, that voluntary power of com- 



