34* DISEASES CLASS III. 2. 2. i, 



ORDO II. 



Decreased Volition. 



GENUS II. 



With decreased AElions of the Organs of Senfe. 

 SPECIES. 



i . Recolleflionis jaflura. Lofs of recolletion. This is the 

 defeat of memory in old people, who forget the actions of yef- 

 terday, being incapable of voluntary recollection, and yet re- 

 member thoie of their youth, which by frequent repetition are 

 introduced by afTociation or fuggeftion. This is properly the 

 paralyfis of the mind ; the organs of fenfe do not obey the vol- 

 untary power ; that is, our ideas cannot be recollected, or acted 

 over again by the will. 



After an apoplectic attack the patients, on beginning to re- 

 cover, find thernfelves mod at a lofs in recollecting proper names 

 of perfons or places ; as thofe words have not been fo frequent- 

 ly aflbciated with the ideas they ftand for, as the common words 



of a language. Mr. , a man of ftrong mind, of a {hort- 



necked family, many of whom had fuffered by apoplexy, after 

 an apoplectic fit, on his recovering the ufe of fpeech, after re- 

 peated trials to remember the name of a perfon or place, applaud- 

 ed himfelf, when he fucceeded, with fuch a childifh fmile on the 

 partial return of his fagacity, as very much affected me. Not 

 long, alas ! to return j for another attack in a few weeks de- 

 ilroyed the whole. See Clafs IV. 2. 3. 8. 



I :a\v a child after the fmall-pox, which was left in this fitua- 

 tk i it was lively, active, and even vigorous j but mewed that 

 of furprife, which novelty excites, at every object it view- 

 ed 5 and that as often as it viewed it. I never heard the termin- 

 ation of the cafe. 



2. Stu-titia vo/untaria. Voluntary folly. The abfence of 

 voluntary power and confequent incapacity to compare the ideas 

 of prefent and future good. Brute animals may be faid to be 

 in this fituation, as they are in general excited into action only 

 by their prefent painful or pleafurable fenfations. Hence though 

 they are liable to furprife, when their pafling trains of ideas are 

 diifevered by violent ftimuli , yet are they not affected with 

 wonder or allonifhment at the novelty of objects ; as they pof- 

 fefs but in a very inferior degree, that voluntary power of com- 

 paring 



