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that of anger ; for in thefe fituations there is always a fudden 

 voluntarily, or wi(h, of clearing their characters arifes in the 

 mind of the accufed perfon ; which, before an opportunity is 

 given for it to be expended on the large mufcles, influences the 

 capillary arteries and glands, as in the preceding article. Whence 

 the increafed actions of the capillaries, and the confequent red- 

 nefs and heat, become exerted between the voluntary ideas of 

 felf-defence, and the mufcular actions neceflary for that purpofe; 

 which laft are thus for a time interrupted or delayed. ^ 



Even in the blufh of modefty or bafhfulnefs there is a felf- 

 condemnation for fome fuppofed defect or indecorum, and a 

 fudden voluntarity, or wifli, of felf-defence ; which not being 

 expended in actions of the larger mufcles excites the capillaries 

 into action ; which in thefe fubjects are more mobile than in 

 others. 



The blufti of young girls on coming into an afTembly room$ 

 where they expect their drefs, and Heps, and manner, to be ex- 

 amined, as in dancing a minuet, may have another origin ; and 

 may be confidered as a hot fit of returning confidence, after a 

 previous cold fit of fear. 



7. Tarditas par alytica. By a ftroke of the palfy or apoplexy- 

 it frequently happens, that thofe ideas which were aflbciated in 

 trains, whofe firft link was a voluntary idea,have their connection 

 diflevered ; and the patient is under the neceflity, by repeated 

 efforts, flowly to renew their aflbciations. In this fituation thofe 

 words, which have the feweft other words aflbciated with them, 

 as the proper names of perfons or places, are the moft difficult 

 to recollect. And in thofe efforts of recollection the word op- 

 pofite to the word required is often produced, as hot for cold, 

 v/inter for fummer, which is owing to our aflbciating our ideas 

 of things by their oppofites as well as by their fimilitudes, and 

 in fome inftances perhaps more frequently, or more forcibly. 

 Other paralytic patients are liable to give wrong names to exter- 

 nal objects, as ufing the word pigs for fheep, or cows for horfes ; 

 in this cafe the aflbciation between the idea of the animal and. 

 the name of it is diflevered ; but the idea of the clafs or genus of 

 the thing remains ; and he takes a name from the firft fpecies 

 which prefents itfelf, and fometimes can correct himfelf, till he 

 finds the true one. 



8. Tarditas fem/is. Slownefs of age. The difficulty of aflb- 

 ciating ideas increafes with our age ; as may be obferved from 

 old people forgetting the bufinefs of the laft hour, unlefs they 

 imprefs it ftrongly, o*by frequent repetition, though they can 

 well recollect the tranfactions of their youth. I faw an elderly 

 man, who could reafon with great clearness and precision, and 



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