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ly retarding his pulfe. This curious circumftance cannot arife 

 from the general effect of exercife, or fatigue, as in thofe cafes 

 the pulfe becomes weaker and quicker ; it muft therefore be af- 

 cribed to a degree of vertigo, which attends all thofe modes of 

 motion, which we are not perpetually accuftomed to. 



Dr. Currie has further obferved, that " in cafes of great de- 

 bility the voluntary mufcular exertion requifite in a fwing pro- 

 duces wearinefs, that is, increafes debility ; and that in fuch in- 

 flates he had frequently noticed, that the diminution of the fre- 

 quency of the pulfe did not take place, but the contrary." Thefc 

 circumftances may thus be accounted for. 



The links of aflbciation, which are effected in the vertigo oc- 

 cafioned by unufual motion, are the irritative motions of the 

 fenfe of vifion, thofe of the ftomach, and thofe of the heart and 

 arteries. When the irritative ideas of vifion are exerted with 

 greater energy at the beginning of vertigo, a degree of fenfation 

 is excited, which is of the pleafurable kind, as above mentioned 5 

 whence the aifociated trains of irritative motions of the ftomach, 

 and hean, and arteries, act at firft with greater energy, both by 

 direct fympathy, and by the additional fenforial power of fenfa- 

 tion. Whence the pulfe of a confumptive patient becomes ftrong- 

 er and confequently flower. 



But if this vertigo becomes much greater in degree or dura- 

 tion, the firft link of this train of aflbciated irritative motions 

 expends too much of the fenforial power, which was ufually em- 

 ployed on the whole train ; and the motions of the ftomach be- 

 come in confequence exerted with lefs energy. This appears, 

 becaufe in this degree of vertigo fickuefs fupervenes, as in fea- 

 (icknefs, which has been (hewn to be owing to lefs energetic ac- 

 tion of the ftomach. And the motions of the heart and arteries 

 then become weaker, and in confequence more frequent, by their 

 direct fympathy with the lelfened actions of the ftomach. See 

 Supplement, I. 12. and Clafs II. i. 6. 7. The general weak- 

 nefs from fatigue is owing to a fimilar caufe, that is, to the too 

 great expenditure of fenforial power in the increafed actions of 

 one part of the fyftem, and the confequent deficiency of it in 

 other parts, or in the whole. 



The abatement of the heat of the (kin in hectic fever by 

 fwinging, is not only owing to the increafed ventilation of cool 

 air, but to the reverfe fympathy of the motions of the cutaneous 

 capillaries with thofe of the heart and arteries ; which occurs in 

 all fevers with arterial debility, and a hot or dry fkin. Hence 

 during moderate fwinging the action of the heart and arteries 

 becomes ftronger and flower, and the action of the capillaries, 

 which was before too great, as appeared by the heat of the flcin, 



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