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tive to the system. Expirations are not excited 

 as in the preceding instance, but the person 

 affected draws deep inspirations ; and these hav- 

 ing the tendency to bring the blood towards the 

 chest, they diminish the quantity in the face and 

 surface of the body ; and the superabundance in 

 the thorax quickly causes palpitation or syncope, 

 from the action of the heart being oppressed. 



CCCCII. I have witnessed one or two 

 well-marked instances of the latter description of 

 anger ; and these accord with the principles pro- 

 posed to explain them. The curled and tremb- 

 ling lip, the scowling eye, and the fixed features, 

 are observed ; and, at the same time, the chest 

 deeply heaves, as if to muster force or suppress an 

 inward feeling. If the cause of the emotion were 

 unknown, and a few of its external traits were 

 absent, the individual would be supposed to suf- 

 fer from fear : the respiration and circulation are 

 influenced in a similar manner in both cases. 



CCCC1IL Having pointed out briefly the 

 mode in which the heart is acted upon by those 

 passions that powerfully excite it, is clear there 

 is not that mysterious connexion between the 

 mind and body so universally believed. Every 

 functional derangement of the heart, if the effect of 

 passion, is occasioned by a primary disorder in the 

 regularity of the respiratory functions) and is never 

 the consequence of a nervous communication between 



