sensorial power, which
probably does not even admit of dreams, and in which, as in apoplexy, no
motions continue but those from internal stimuli, from sensation, and from
association.

6. In other people a paroxysm of drunkenness has another termination; the
inebriate, as soon as he begins to be vertiginous, makes pale urine in
great quantities and very frequently, and at length becomes sick, vomits
repeatedly, or purges, or has profuse sweats, and a temporary fever ensues
with a quick strong pulse. This in some hours is succeeded by sleep; but
the unfortunate bacchanalian does not perfectly recover himself till about
the same time of the succeeding day, when his course of inebriation began.
As shewn in Sect. XVII. 1. 7. on Catenation. The temporary fever with
strong pulse is owing to the same cause as the glow on the skin mentioned
in the third paragraph of this Section: the flow of urine and sickness
arises from the whole system of irritative motions being thrown into
confusion by their associations with each other; as in sea-sickness,
mentioned in Sect. XX. 4. on Vertigo; and which is more fully explained in
Section XXIX. on Diabetes.

7. In this vertigo from internal causes we see objects double, as two
candles instead of one, which is thus explained. Two lines drawn through
the axes of our two eyes meet at the object we attend to: this angle of the
optic axes increases or diminishes with the less or greater distances of
objects. All objects before or behind the place where this angle is formed,
appear double; as any one may observe by holding up a pen between his eyes
and the candle; when he looks attentively at a spot on the pen, and
carelessly at the candle, it will appear double; and the reverse when he
looks attentively at the candle and carelessly at the pen; so that in this
case the muscles of the eye, like those of the limbs, stagger and are
disobedient to the expiring efforts of volition. Numerous objects are
indeed sometimes seen by the inebriate, occasioned by the refractions made
by the tears, which stand upon his eye-lids.

8. This vertigo also continues, when the inebriate lies in his bed, in the
dark, or with his eyes closed; and this more powerfully than when he is
erect, and in the light. For the irritative ideas of the apparent motions
of objects are now excited by irritation from internal stimulus, or by
association with other irritative motions; and the inebriate, like one in a
dream, believes