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repugnance for water was fuch, and con¬ 
tinued fo long, that when I faw her (many 
years after (lie had left off having children)* 
flie could not drink any without fuffering 
an indifpofition from it. 
In the difeafes we call nervous, and in 
acute fevers, the fenfxbility is fuch, that a 
flight current of air, whifpering, a very 
weak light, and even entire darknefs, ir¬ 
ritate and difquiet them, brings on convul- 
fions, phrenzy, and delirium. This hap¬ 
pens particularly in hydrophobia and in¬ 
flammation of the brain Inflammation 
frequently increafes the fenfibility of the 
organ it affeds, as in ophthalmia. A man 
with inflamed eyes could fee clearly in the 
dark, but on his curement he was de¬ 
prived of this privilege. (Nicolai Vom. 
Schmurze.-—V. Haller, Phyf. T. iv. L. x. 
fed. y. 
We know tolerably well the caufes 
which may diftinguifh or increafe, or 
