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let is faid fometimes to be given to a foldier, who is to be ie- 

 verely flogged, that he may by biting it better bear his punifli- 

 ment. 



i p. Citta. A defire to fwallow indigeftible fubftances. I 

 once faw a young lady, about ten years of age, who filled her 

 ftomach with the earth out of a flower-pot, and vomited it up 

 with fmall (tones, bits of wood, and wings of infects arnongft it. 

 She had the bombycinous complexion, and looked like a chloro- 

 tic patient, though fo young ; this generally proceeds from an 

 acid in the ftomach. 



M. M. A vomit. Magnefia alba. Armenian bole. Rhu- 

 barb. Bark. Steel. A blifter. See Clafs I. 2. 4. 5. 



20. Averfion to food. This may arife, without 

 difeafe of the ftomach, from connecting naufeous ideas to our 



ufual food, as by calling a ham a hog's a . This madnefs 



is much inculcated by the ftoic philolophy. See Antoninus* 

 Meditations. See two cafes of patients who refufed to take 

 nourimment, Clafs III. i. 2. i. 



Averfions to peculiar kinds of food are thus formed early in 

 life by aflbciation of iome maniacal hallucination with them, I 

 remember a child, who on tafting the griftle of fturgeon, afked 

 what grift le was ? And being told it was like the divifion of 

 a man's nofe, received an ideal hallucination ; and for twenty 

 years afterwards could not be perfuaded to tafte fturgeon. 



The great fear or averfion, which fome people experienc 

 the fight of fpiders, toads, crickets, and the like, have generally- 

 had a fimilar origin. 



M. M. Afibciate agreeable ideas with thofe which difguil ; 

 as call a fpider ingenious, a frog clean and innocent j and reprefs 

 all expreffions of difguft by the countenance, as fuch exprefTions 

 contribute to preferve, or even to increafe the energy of the ideas 

 aflbciated with them ; as mentioned above in Species 17. Ira. 



2 1 . Syphilis wiaginarm. The fear that they are infeded v 

 the venereal difeaie, when they have only deferved it, is a very 

 common infanity amongft modeft young men ; and is not to be 

 cured without applying artfully to the mind ; a little mercury 

 muft be given, and hopes of a cure added weekly and gradually 

 by interview or correfpondence for fix or eight weeks. Many 

 of thefe patients have been repeatedly ialivated without curing 

 the mind ! 



22. Pfcra itnaginaria. I have twice feen an imaginary : . 

 and twice an imaginary diabetes, where there was not the 

 veftige of either of thofe difeaies, and once an ir 



nefs, where the patient heard perfectly well. In all thefe caf. 

 hallucinated idea is fo powerfully excited, that it is nor to be 



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