[140] Institutiones Pathologicæ, §. 563.
[141] Galenus, Libr. De consuetudinibus, Charter. T. vi. p. 541. M. Maty, Dissertatio de consuetudinis efficacia in corpus humanum, Leyd. 1740. M. Pujati has also given us some very good reflexions on this matter, in his Treatise De la Diéte des Fievreux, p. 57, &c. Metaphysicians, who appear to have the best handled this point, are Mr. Locke, Essays, L. ii. c. 32, M. de Condillac, Traité des animaux, p. 2. c. 2. and 9. and the anonymous author des Elemens de Physiologie, c. 61, 62, 63, 64. I know a man that, having been waked, above twenty years before, at one after midnight, by an alarm of fire, has since that time constantly waked of himself precisely at that hour.
[142] Epidem. L. vi. §. 8. n. 52. Foesul. 1201.
[143] De semine, Lib. ii. cap. 1. Charter. T. iii p. 213.
[144] Obs. Chirurg. Cent. i. Obs. 22.
[145] Cons. 102.
[146] Cas. 102.
[147] Institut. §. 776.
[148] Consult. Cent. 2 & 3. Op. T. iii. p. 214.
[149] Epid. L. vi. § 3. No. 13. Foes. 1173.