SECT. XXXIII. i. DISEASES OF SENSATION, 447 



SECT. XXXIII. 



DISEASES OF SENSATION. 



I. Motions excited by fenfation. Digejlion. Genera- 

 tion. Pleafure of exigence. Hypochondriacifm. z. 

 Pain introduced. Senfiti c ve fevers of two kinds. 3. 

 Two fenforial powers exerted in fenjitive fevers. Size 

 of the blood. Nervous fevers diflingui/bed from pu- 

 trid ones. The feptic and antifeptic theory. 4. TWQ 

 kinds of delirium. 5. Other animals are lefs liable 

 to delirium, cannot receive our contagious difeafes, 

 and are lefs liable to madnefs. II. I. Senfttive moti- 

 ons generated. 2. Injlammation explained. 3. Its 

 remote caufesfrom excefs of irritation, or of irrita- 

 bility, not from thofe pains which are owing to defect 

 of irritation. New vejjiels produced, and much heat* 

 4. Purulent matter fecreted. 5. Contagion explained. 

 6. Received but once. 7. If common matter be con- 

 tagious ? 8. Why feme contagions are received but 

 once. 9. Why others may be received frequently. Con- 

 tagions of f mall-pox and meafles do not acJ at the 

 fame times. Two cafes of fuch patients. 10. The 

 blood from patients in the fmall-pox will not infecl 

 others. Cafes of children thus inoculated. The va- 

 rious contagion is not received into the blood. It 

 acls by fenfitive affbciation between thejiomach and 

 Jkin. III. i. Absorption of f olid s and fluids, z. Art 

 of healing ulcers. 3. Mortif cation attended with lefs 

 pain in weak people. 



I. i. AS many motions of the body are excited 

 and continued by irritations, fo others require, either 



conjundly 



