SECT. XXXI. *. OF TEMPERAMENTS. 



refped change the form and temperament of the 

 body. 



On the contrary, thofe who are happily poffeffed 

 6f a great degree of irritability, bear labour better 

 than pain ; and are ilrong, adtive, and ingenious. 

 But there is not properly a temperament of in- 

 creafed irritability .tending to difeafe, becaufe an in- 

 creafed quantity of irritative motions generally in- 

 duces an iucreafe of pieafure or pain, as in intoxi- 

 cation, or inflammation ; and then the new motions 

 are ihe immediate confequences of increafed fenfa- 

 tion, not of increafed irritation ; which have hence 

 been fo perpetually confounded with each other. 



II. Temperament of Senjibilityi 



THERE is not properly a temperament, or prer 

 difpofition to difeafe, from decreafed fenfibility, 

 fmce irritability and not fenfibility is immediately 

 necefTary to bodily health. Hence it is the excefs 

 of fenfation alone, as it is the defect of irritation, 

 that mod frequently produces difeafe. This tem- 

 perament of increafed fenfibility is known from the 

 increafed activity of all thofe motions of the organs 

 of fenfe and mufcles, which are exerted in confe- 

 quence of pieafure or pain, as in the beginning of 

 drunkennefs, and in inflammatory fever. Hence 

 thofe of this conftitution are liable to inflammatory 

 difeafes, as hepatitis, and to that kind of confump- 

 tion which is hereditary, and commences with flight 

 repeated hcemoptoe. They have high-coloured lips,' 

 frequently dark hair and dark eyes with large pu- 

 pils, and are in that cafe fubjedT to gutta ferena. 

 They are liable to enthufiafm, delirium, and reve- 

 rie. In this laft circumfiance they are liable to 

 ftart at the clapping of a door ; becaufe the more 

 intent any one is on the pafling current of his ideas, 



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