An important Obfervation ON THIS SUBJECT PAGE 320 The Attention of the Mind being occupied by A Mother, who has feldom enjoyed a Day's During the TROUBLES in Scotland, hyfterical A very remarkable Inftance of the Powers of 321 ib. 322 ib. {BOERHAAVE's judicious Conduct, ib. An Inftance of a Paroxyfm of ASTHMA re- 323 SECT. XXIX. OF HABIT. VOL. II. A Propenfity to acquire Habits is a general {^ i 324 This { This is illuftrated by the Difference in the The fame holds with respect to EVACU- ATIONS, From this Law, the Advantage produced by Bark, Steel, &c. is kept up, for the in- creafed Action from these Remedies be- comes a Link in the Chain of Action, and when the Time returns for this increased additional Movement, though the impulse be discontinued, the Motion from Habit {This is illuftrated by feveral Examples, Befides, during the Interval of increafed Ac- 326 ib. ib. Their first Object is the Choice of Food, the - When Animals pass from their Place of reft Firft over a ploughed Field, it is obferved that his after Followers each fall into the. In large Companies, each Perfon at a public Table drops into the fame Seat he had oc- In a Farmer's Stable, his Horfes and Cows ib. ib. { On this Principle NATURE accommodates her- From the Power of HABIT (which depends upon fuch nice Circumftances, as to escape, as yet, the Ken of Philofophy), when one Kind of Stimulus ceases to roufe the Fibre into the neceffary Quantity of Action, it is often fufficient to produce the desired Effect to change the Stimulus for another apparently fimilar in Quantity and Quality, This is agreeably illuftrated by Dr. DAR- WIN, Other Examples of the Effects of a SUCCES- 330 ib. ib. {The fame general Law applies in the EXHI- BITION of Medicine, When the first Impreffion, however, is very ftrong, and the Effect produced very vio- An { An Attempt towards an EXPLANATION of this perplexing Phenomenon, 1ft. From the Chain of ASSOCIATED Ac TIONS being interrupted. A Note would have been inferted here to refer the Reader to what was faid Page 325, Line 22, had this Page allowed of it. 2d. From a CHANGE wrought on the The Reader alfo would have been requested to reconfider what was faid page 325, Line 8. PAGE 334 |
