4H OF TEMPERAMENTS. SECT. XXXI. 5. 



the prefent time ; for by the word memory thefe 

 writers only underftood the unmeaning repetition of 

 words or numbers in the order they were received, 

 without any voluntary efforts of the mind. 



In this temperament thofe affeciations of motions, 

 which are commonly termed fympathies, aft with 

 greater certainty and energy, as thofe between dif- 

 turbed vifion and the inverfion of the motion of 

 the ftomach, as in fea-ficknefs ; and the pains in the 

 flioulder from hepatic inflammation. Add to this, 

 that the catenated circles of aclions are of greater 

 extent than in the other confutations. Thus if a 

 ft.rong vomit or cathartic be exhibited in this tem- 

 perament, a fmaller quantity will produce as great 

 an effect, if it be given fome weeks afterwards ; 

 whereas in other temperaments this is only to be 

 expeded, if it be exhibited in a few days after the 

 firft dofe. Hence quartan agues are formed in thofe 

 of this temperament, as explained in Se&ion XXXII . 

 on difeafes from irritation, and other intermittents 

 are liable to recur from flight caufes many weeks 

 after they have been cured by the bark. 



V. The firft of thefe temperaments differs from 

 the ftandard of health from defect, and the others 

 from excefs of fenforial power; but it fometimes 

 happens that the fame individual, from the changes 

 introduced into his habit by the different feafons of 

 the year, modes or periods of life, or by accidental 

 difeafes, paries from one of thefe temperaments to 

 another. Thus a long ufe of too much fermented 

 liquor produces the temperament of increafed fenfl- 

 bility ; great indolence and folitude that of decreafed 

 irritability; and want of the neceflaries of life that 

 of inerealed voluntarily. 



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