14. Another instance of the effect of the association of ideas.
A friend of mine knew one perfectly cured of
madness by a very harsh and offensive operation. The gentleman who was thus recovered, with great sense of
gratitude and acknowledgment owned the cure all his life after, as the greatest obligation he could have received;
but, whatever gratitude and reason suggested to him, he could never bear the sight of the operator: that image
brought back with it the idea of that agony which he suffered from his hands, which was too mighty and
intolerable for him to endure.
