SECT. XXXIV. 3. 2. OF VOLITION, 34 i 



fwimming. He then for half an hour hunted a pack of hounds ; 

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

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

 aftly a day of hunting, which (I was informed) he had witnefled 

 a year before, going through all the mod minute circumftances 

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

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

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

 as fwimming and jumping, He then fung an Englifh and then 

 an Italian fong ; 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 himfelf with ap-r 

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

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

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

 and a flow moaning refpiration, in which he continued about 

 another half hour, and then recovered. 



The fcquel 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 pan: fix he was directed fifteen drops of laudanum 

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

 came fhorter, and lefs violent. The dofe of opium was increaf- 

 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 ; 

 and I believe the complaint returned no more. 



2. In this paroxyfin it mud be obferved, that he began with 

 pain, and ended with (lupor, in both circumftances refernbling 

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

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

 by pieafurable fenfation, were exertions to relieve pain. 



The hunting fcene appeared to be rather an act of memory 

 than of imagination, and was therefore rather a voluntary exer- 

 tion, though attended with the pieafurable eagernefs, which 

 was the consequence of thofe 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 

 ftimuli 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 fenforial power of fenfation. 

 Whence the mixed catentations of voluntary and fenfitive ideas 

 and mqfcular motions in reverie j which, like every other kind 



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