PATHOLOGY. 
of which we may fay, as Ovid did long fince of the laft, 
that they are nuttis medicabilis herbis. 
Genus II. Ewpnthema, [from eh and 7raO^as, of 
to fuffer.] Ungovernable pafllon. Generic characters— 
The judgment perverted or overpowered by the force of 
fome predominant paffion-: the features of the counte¬ 
nance changed from their common character. Twofpecies. 
• r. Empathema entonicum : the predominant pafllon 
accompanied with increafed excitement, ardour,and ac¬ 
tivity : eye quick and daring; countenance flufhed and 
tumid. Divided by Dr. Good into, 
«. Iracundiae, wrath. 
( 3 . Superbiae, pride. 
7. Glorias famis, ambition. 
o\ Letitise, joy. 
e. Philautias, felf-love, or felf-conceit. . 
£. Zelotypiae, jealoufy. 
2. Empathema atonicum: the predominant paffion 
accompanied with diminifhed excitement, anxiety, and 
love of folitude; eye fixed and penfive; countenance pale 
and furrowed. Six varieties. 
a. Defiderii, longing : eager defire for an abfent ob¬ 
ject, whether place or perfon : and hence equally in¬ 
cluding home-ficknefs, country-ficknefs, love-ficknefs. 
/ 3 . Auri famis, avarice. 
7. Anxietudinis, preying care. 
8 . Mceroris, heart-ache. 
e. Defperationitis, defpondency. 
Genus III. Alufia , [from a.\v;, o.\vg 1;, ccXva’u.oi, oberra- 
tio. Galen occafionally employs the fecond. The theme 
is a.\vu , “errabunda mente afficior; inquietus oberro 
whence the Latin allucinatio, and hallucinatio.'] Ulufion. 
Generic chambers—The judgment perverted or overpow¬ 
ered by the force of the imagination ; the fpirits perma¬ 
nently elevated or deprefled; the feelings of the mind de¬ 
picted in the countenance. Twofpecies. 
1. Alufia- elafio, mental extravagance : romantic ideas 
of real life; ardent and exalted fancy; pleafurable feel¬ 
ings ; frequent pu-lfe; great activity; eye keen and 
lighted up : countenance confident and animated. Di¬ 
vided into, 
ct. E. heroica, chivalry or romantic gallantry. A ge¬ 
nerous and high-fpirited flight of the imagination, but 
now grown obfolete, "and rarely to be met with except 
in ancient tales and traditions. 
( 3 . E, facetofa, high fpirits; fparkling ebullient wit, 
incapable of reltraining itfelf; that often facrifices a 
friend at the fhrine of a jeft. 
7. E. ecftatica, falfe infpiration ; vifionary conceits. 
The judgment urged to miftake energetic ideas for real¬ 
ities; to believe in phantafms ; in an immediate commu¬ 
nication with fpirits, or in the power of working mira¬ 
cles. Examples may be found in all ages and in all re¬ 
ligions. One of the moll interefling is that of Saint Te- 
refa-in Butler’s Lives. In our own day one of the molt 
ltriking is that of Baron Sw'edenborg. 
E. fanatica, fanaticifm. 
z. Alufia hypochondrias, hypochondrifm: gloomy 
ideas of real life ; dejeCted fpirits ; anxiety; dyfpepfy ; 
languid pulfe; indifpofition to activity; eye oblique and 
fcowling; countenance gloomy and fullen. Three va¬ 
rieties, all perhaps proceeding from Dyfpepfia, which fee. 
«. H. autalgica, vapours: with vifionary or exagge¬ 
rated fen fe of pains, or difeafe; whimfical diflike of 
perfons, places, or things; groundlefs apprehenlions of 
perfonal danger, or poverty. 
/ 3 . II. pentsefa, fpleen : with general liftleflnefs, or dif- 
g.ult; irkfomenefs and wearinefs of life. 
7. H. mifanthropica, mifanthropy : with general ma¬ 
levolence, peevilhnefs, and abhorrence of mankind. 
Genus IV. Aphelxia, [from otip^y.to, to draw away.] 
Reverie. Generic characters—Voluntary inactivity of 
the whole or the greater part of the external fenfes to 
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the impreflions of furrounding objeCts, during wakeful- 
nefs. Of this difeafe, which, as Dr. Good juftly obferves, 
is almoft, if not altogether, new to nofology, and has 
feldom been dipt into by phyfiologills, the doCtor gives 
us three fpecies. 
1. Aphelxia focors, abfence of mind: truant attention; 
wandering fancy; vacant or vacillating countenance. 
2. Aphelxia intenta, abftraCtion of mind : the atten¬ 
tion wound up, and rivetted to a particular fubjeCl; with 
fympathetic emotion of the mufcles and features connect¬ 
ed with its general drift. 
3. Aphelxia otiofa, brown ftudy, or liltlefs mufing: 
leifurely liftlelfnefs; free furrenderof the judgment to the 
fportive vagaries of the fancy ; quiefcent mufcles ; idle 
gravity of countenance. 
Genus V. Paroniria, [from wocfx, and ompor, dreaming.] 
Depraved, diiturbed, or morbid, dreaming. Generic 
characters—The voluntary organs connected with the 
palling train of ideas overpowered by the force of the 
imagination during dreaming, and involuntarily excited 
to their natural or accuftomed aCtions, while the other 
organs remain afleep. Three fpecies. 
1. Paroniria ambulans, fleep-walking, or fomnambu- 
lifm : the mufcles of locomotion excited into their ac¬ 
cuftomed aCtion by the force of the imagination during 
dreaming. 
2. Paroniria loquens, fleep-talking: the mufcles of 
fpeech excited into their accuftomed aCtion by the force 
of the imagination during dreaming. 
3. Paroniria falax, night-pollution; (Gonorrhoea dor- 
mientum, Cull.) The fexual organs excited into venereal 
aCtion by the force of the imagination during dreaming. 
The reader will obferve, that the term Paroniria falax 
is reftriCled to night-pollution from dreaming, and does 
not therefore embrace that kind of night-pollution which 
requires the aid of medicine. 
Genus VI. Moria, [from p.vp> i;, filly, foolilh.] Fatuity; 
defeCt or hebetude of the underltanding. Two fpecies, 
fubdivided into varieties. 
1. Moria imbecilis, imbecility: defeCt or hebetude 
partial or confined to particular faculties of the under- 
ftanding. Four varieties. 
ct. Stupiditas, ftupidity : dulnefs and indocility of the 
apprehenfion ; torpitude and poverty of the imagination. 
/ 3 . Amnefin, forgetfulnefs: feeblenefs or failure of the 
memory. 
7. Credulifas, credulity: weaknefs and undue pliancy 
of the judgment, with facility of being duped. 
o. Inconftantia, ficklenefs: inftability and irrefolution 
of the will. 
2. Moria demens, irrationality: defeCf or hebetude of 
all the faculties of the underltanding. Three varieties. 
a. Stultitia, fillinefs : (hallow knowledge ; feeble judg¬ 
ment; light frivolous fancy ; for the molt part with good 
nature, fometimes with obltinacy. 
( 3 . Lerema, dotage: impotence of body as well as of 
mind from natural or premature old age; childilh defires 
and purfuits; drawling fpeech or garrulous babble, 
compofed of ideas for the molt part aflbciated by previous 
habit. 
7. Ancea, idiotifm s general obliteration of the men¬ 
tal powers and afteCtions; paucity or deftitution of ideas; 
obtufe fenfibility; vacant countenance; imperfeCt or 
broken articulation ; with, occafionally, tranfient and 
unmeaning gufts of palfion. 
Order II. Aisthetica, [from xia-Qyert;, perception, of 
tx.u7Quvop1.x1, to perceive.] Difeafes affeCting the Senfation. 
Dullnefs, depravation, or abolition, of one or more of 
the external organs of fenfe. This order contains five 
genera. 
Genus I. Paropfis, [from orapa, bad, and oij/t?, fight.] 
Difeafed vifion; the fenfe of fight being vitiated or loft. 
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