the Brunonian Elementa Medicina, a work (with some exceptions) of great
genius, must be considered as confirmations of the truth of the theory, as
they were probably arrived at by different trains of reasoning.

Thus in those who have been exposed to cold and hunger there is a
deficiency of stimulus. While in nervous fever there is a deficiency of
sensorial power. And in habitual drunkards, in a morning before their usual
potation, there is a deficiency both of stimulus and of sensorial power.
While, on the other hand, in the beginning of intoxication there is an
excess of stimulus; in the hot-ach, after the hands have been immersed in
snow, there is a redundancy of sensorial power; and in inflammatory
diseases with arterial strength, there is an excess of both.

Hence if the sensorial power be lessened, while the quantity of stimulus
remains the same as in nervous fever, the frequency of repetition of the
arterial contractions may continue, but their force in respect to removing
obstacles, as in promoting the circulation of the blood, or the velocity of
each contraction, will be diminished, that is, the animal strength will be
lessened. And secondly, if the quantity of sensorial power be lessened, and
the stimulus be increased to a certain degree, as in giving opium in
nervous fevers, the arterial contractions may be performed more frequently
than natural, yet with less strength.

And thirdly, if the sensorial power continues the same in respect to
quantity, and the stimulus be somewhat diminished, as in going into a
darkish room, or into a coldish bath, suppose of about eighty degrees of
heat, as Buxton-bath, a temporary weakness of the affected fibres is
induced, till an accumulation of sensorial power gradually succeeds, and
counterbalances the deficiency of stimulus, and then the bath ceases to
feel cold, and the room ceases to appear dark; because the fibres of the