*&4 6 F R E V-.E R I E. SECT. XIX. 3. 4 $. & 



before the expe&ed returns of the paroxyfms ; and 

 after a few relapfes, at the intervals of three ot 

 four months, entirely difappearetl. But (he conti- 

 liued at times to have other fymptoms of epilepfy. 



3. We fhall only here coniider, what had hap- 

 pened during the time of her reveries, as that is 

 our prefent fubjecl ; the fits of convulfion belong 

 to another part of this treatife. Sett. XXXIV. 44. 



There feems to have been no fufpenfion of voli* 

 lion during the fits of reverie, becaufe me endea- 

 voured to regain the loft idea in repeating the lines 

 of poetry, and deliberated about breaking the tube- 

 fofe and fufpe&ed the tea to have been medicated. 



4. 1 he ideas and mufcular movements depend- 

 ing ^on fenfation were exerted with their ufual viva- 

 city, and were kept from being inconfiftent by the 

 power of volition, as appeared from her whole con- 

 verfation, and was explained in Sett. XVII. 3. 7. 

 and XVIII. 1 6. 



5. The ideas and motions dependant on irrita- 

 tion during the firft weeks of her difeafe, whilft 

 the reverie was complete, were never fucceeded by 

 the fenfation of pleafure or pain; as (he neither 

 faw, heard, nor felt any of the furrounding objects. 

 Nor was it certain that any irritative motions fuc- 

 ceeded the ftimulus of external objects, till the re- 

 verie became lefs complete, and then (he could walk 

 about the room without running againft the furni- 

 ture of it. Afterwards, when the reverie became 

 ftill lefs complete from the ufe of opium, fome few 

 irritations were at times fucceeded by her attention 

 to them. As when (he fmelt at a tuberofe, and 

 drank a difh of tea, but this only when (he feemed 

 voluntarily to attend to them* 



6. In common^life when tve liften to diftant 

 founds, or wifli to diflinguifh objecls in the night, 

 we are obliged flrongly to exert our volition to 

 difpofe the organs of fenfe to perceive them, and 



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