...circumftanc-e, commonly attending delirium, is a very unufual afTociation of ideas. As, with refpect to moft of the affairs of common life, the ideas laid up in the memory are, in moft men, aflbciated in the fame manner; fo a very unufttal aflbciation, in any individual muft prevent...

...necessarily occasion a delirium, or an erroneous judgment, which is to be considered as the disease. Another circumstance, commonly attending delirium,...those relations which are the most common foundation of association in the memory; and, therefore, this unusual, and commonly hurried association of ideas,...

...included disorders characterized by 'erroneous judgments' and hallucinations, On delusions he wrote: 'another circumstance, commonly attending delirium,...those relations which are the most common foundation of association in the memory: and therefore this unusual and commonly hurried association of ideas,...

...passion. He finds a very unusual association of ideas in delirium, which prevents the individual from forming 'the ordinary judgment of those relations which are the most common foundation of association in the memory'.18 In mania or madness, the mind often turns on one single subject, but...